ZA - Babylonstoren
Your membership can be used to gain free entry to Babylonstoren by presenting your valid Newt Membership to the Ticket Office staff.
The garden at Babylonstoren is at the heart of the farm. It was inspired by the historic Company’s Garden in Cape Town, which supplied sailing ships of the Dutch East India Company with fresh vegetables and fruit during the days when the Cape was a halfway station between Europe and Asia - but it also links back to the mythological hanging gardens of Babylon, which were, supposedly, created by Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century BC for his wife who longed for the mountains and valleys of her youth.
The garden comprises 15 clusters spanning vegetable areas, stone and pome fruits, nuts, citrus, berries, bees, herbs, ducks and chickens, a prickly pear maze, and more. Gravity feeds water from a stream by rills into the garden, flowing through ponds planted with edible lotus, nymphaea lilies and waterblommetjies. Every one of the more than 300 varieties of plants in the garden is edible or has medicinal value. They are also grown as organically as possible and in a biologically sustainable manner. The fruit and vegetables from the garden are harvested all year round for use in two farm-to-fork restaurants.
Your membership can be used to gain free entry to Babylonstoren by presenting your valid Newt Membership to the Ticket Office staff.