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.
96 GROND TOT MOND JUL 2026