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IFPA members who attended Fresh Solutions in Stellenbosch on 8 March 2023 were able to gain valuable insight into conservation and regenerative agriculture.

Redefine Properties unveiled its first retail urban rooftop farm at the Kenilworth Centre on 23 November. The HandPicked CityFarm initiative is being developed in partnership with the HandPicked programme of the Mr Price Foundation.

Each year Tru-Cape hosts its Heritage Orchard Open Day at Oak Valley Estate in Elgin, inviting the public for a guided walk to see and taste apple and pear varieties that are no longer in commercial production.

Flagstone Wines launched its range of vegan-friendly wines on it's 21st birthday at Casa Labia, Cape Town on the 29 October 2020.

Jenna Robinson, regional marketing manager for Husqvarna Africa, shares the backstory about the brand's recent campaign, featuring rugby icon Beast Tendai Mtawarira as brand ambassador. As South Africans begin to emerge from one of our most challenging periods to date, the campaign offers an empowering message of our own resilience, of our strength, and our ability to triumph over adversity.

Agribusiness expert and professor of strategic planning and management at the Business Schools of the University of São Paulo (USP) and Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil shares 10 key observations on the new way of life due to the global coronavirus pandemic. He shares the observations grouped in 10 words or topics, including digital, home, simplicity, sanity and nature. Watch the video below:.

Moët & Chandon hosted its annual Moët & Chandon Grand Day on 22 June at the Michelangelo Hotel in Sandton. The 24-hour global celebration was in celebration of Moët & Chandon Impérial's 150th anniversary. The theme of the celebration was 'Studio 1869'.

Sandringham, outside Stellenbosch, recently hosted the annual South African Cheese Festival. The festival offers small cheesemakers the opportunity to receive exposure for their businesses and products.

The Mayor of Theewaterskloof, Christel Vosloo, recently handed over title deeds to members of the apple and pear-farming communities in Grabouw.

Poultry producer Astral Foods has been assisting the World of Birds Wildlife Sanctuary in Hout Bay, which has been under financial strain over the past 12 months. It has been providing the sanctuary with an R100,000 worth of feed per month since August 2018.

On 28 February 2019, the annual South African Dairy Championships competition judged 76 manufacturers who together entered a sum of 882 dairy products in more than 100 different classes.

Cape Town-based aerial data-analytics company Aerobotics recently unveiled five new agricultural modernisations that are set to improve the way farmers operate. The company showcased the new technologies at its Future of Farming event at Leopard's Leap Wine Farm in Franschhoek on 11 October 2018, which was broadcast across 11 locations in most local farming communities, including Citrusdal, Johannesburg, Pretoria, KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Kirkwood, Patensie, Tzaneen, Nelspruit, and Hartswater.

SLE recently showcases its ALI vertical farm structure and HAIBO (Hitech Agricultural Initiative for a Beautiful World) app at the Southern Sun Cape Sun in Cape Town's CBD.

The Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction recently treated wine enthusiast to this year's lineup of individually crafted wines at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The wines will be auctioned off at the Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch on 29 September 2018.

The Flash Gala recently took place at The Pool Room restaurant on Oak Valley Estate, Elgin.