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Words: Danie Keet Photography: Michel Dei-Cont
HILLANDALE | MIXED FARMING

The crop that put Hillandale on the map

Talking to Roy Caldecott on Hillandale is a learning experience in farming through trial, error and persistence. It is also the story of how one unlikely herb, coriander, changed the direction of a family farming business in the Natal Midlands.

Words: Danie Keet Photography: Michel Dei-Cont

Middle: Roy Caldecott in one of the coriander fields on the farm. Bottom: Row upon row of coriander grows under the protective netting. Top: Fresh coriander at Hillandale, the crop that has become central to the farm’ s year-round vegetable operation.

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