N’Rougas Farm News

Generally when you ask someone when their rain season is you will expect them to say winter or summer rain………. and yes we would answer summer rain, but in truth in the Bushmanland our rain season is in February. With an average of 125ml a year you can imagine the trust we put into February. […]

Some farm news: it has been a wonderful day on the farm. Today we had an experienced regenerative farmer on N’Rougas Farm with us. We learn so much when experts visit. One of our favourite activities has become to look at what grasses and plants are growing, and whats happening to the health of the

We finally have the stock and the facility to deliver lamb from our farm to your table in Johannesburg FIRST DELIVERY : 8 FEBRUARY 2023  Most of you do not know us or our story , so I would like to give it to you here in a nutshell. We farm using predator friendly and

The only time to work on the farm is very early in the morning. With temperatures reaching 43 degrees at midday it is almost impossible to be outdoors. Just before the sun rose today the N’Rougas team was in the veld counting, weighing and assessing the flock. We are always delighted to be able to

As holistic farmers – part and parcel of regenerative farming – we are very reluctant to spray poison on our farm to kill locusts. It is however a government regulation that we do!  We were advised that using our flock of sheep to trample them would work. We were excited to try, and can report

We have had a successful lambing season, and are now waiting for our beautiful lambs to grow strong and healthy on the winter veld. We were very fortunate this year to get a winter rain. This gave our veld new life, and carries us through to the summer rains, when once again the growth will

There is delight – to use an expression – great ‘shepherds delight’ – as a portion of our ewes are lambing. We are witnessing healthy births and many of the ewes with twins – which is now, so to speak, a farmers delight!  The lambs are strong, and their mothers are displaying good mothering instincts, as they spend the days calling out

We had great excitement on the farm yesterday. The big day dawned – we released our very beautiful, big and strong ‘Veld’ Master rams into the same camp as the ewes. It was a memorable experience. As we arrived and opened the trailer to let the rams into the camp we were blown away –