Our Story
About Little Rock
Little Rock Garden is a regenerative farm in the Breede Valley, set on a stretch of land that was once part of a small railway-siding settlement dating back to the 1890s.
Here, we are creating a small pocket of land where soil, water, trees, wildlife, animals, and people can thrive together – each forming part of a living and evolving whole.
“God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.” ~Ibn Arabi.
Regenerative by Design
Healthy soil holds water. Water supports trees and plants. Trees bring shade, cooling, shelter, and habitat. The hens, trees, wild gardens, soil, and water all form part of the same evolving system – one we are learning from and building season by season.
Our focus is simple – to produce the best quality eggs we can from hens that are never caged and have daytime access to open outdoor areas, while caring for the land that supports them.
Water, Trees, and Soil
This ground carries the traces of historic water-management systems – seasonal dams, old channels, and earthworks built during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s to slow floodwater and help protect the surrounding land.
Much of this infrastructure lay quiet for decades, until flooding in the recent seasons of 2023 and 2024 brought the water back. A major flood moved through the valley in 2026 and put the old systems to the test. Their role became very visible again, reinforcing something we are coming to understand more deeply – the importance of slowing water, spreading it across the landscape, and allowing it to sink into the soil, so that the land behaves more like a sponge than a drain.
Wild Gardens, Grown Slowly
It began almost by accident – a batch of volunteer seedlings potted up long before we had land to plant them in. A Covid Lockdown project meant, those seedlings grew into thousands of trees.
With the land arrived an opportunity to populate a collection of wild garden spaces across several hectares. What began with a few pots has become part of a much longer commitment to planting, restoring, and leaving this small corner of the Breede Valley richer than we found it.
Planting now for another generation of shade, shelter, and life.
The Way In
Gateway at The Old Post Office
Little Rock’s wild gardens, tree nursery, and farmland remain private and are not currently open to visitors. But right at the gate stands the historic Old Post Office — first opened on Goudini Road in 1948, with the local postal story reaching back to 1888.
Today it is a shopfront, creative space, and informal gallery — a place to browse things made, grown, gathered, and found here, and where a little of the story of Little Rock makes its way out into the world.
Follow the Story
We’re writing about all of this as it happens — the water, the trees, the flock, the seasons — in The Art of Farm Living, a letter from Little Rock Garden. It’s also available in Afrikaans.