- Broaden your gardening horizons with indigenous trees
Activity
- Daily Garden Tour
Our daily garden tour starts at the Farm Shop at 10h00. Remember to wear comfortable shoes, bring a hat in summer, and wellies plus the umbrella provided in your room in winter.
- Special Collection Garden Tour
- Olive Oil Tour and Tasting
The tour starts at our Tasting Room, with a brief introduction to Babylonstoren as we make our way to the olive production plant. Here, we explain the cold-press process that transform olives into golden olive oil, after which we discu ...
- Wine Cellar Tour
KBT Karwas
- BT Karwas Persoonlike Voertuig (Buite)
- BT Karwas Persoonlike Voertuig (Binne en Buite)
- BT Karwas Plaas Voertuig
Soetmelksvlei
- Soetmelksvlei
Tickets are required for Adults & Children (Age 4+):
Children under 4 are welcome and do not require a booking. - Everything’s better with butter: make butter & bake buttermilk rusks
- Pickle & perserve with summer's abundance
- Bake your own: savoury breads for a festive table
- Bake your own: teatime treats with choux pastries & almonds
- Bloomin' beautiful: the art of flower pressing
- Traditional needlework: the basics of colourful quilting
- Master meat: make your own salami & charcuterie
- Magic with milk: make butter, soft cheese & yoghurt
- Master meat: boerewors & droëwors
- Hands-on kids: bake & ice your own farm animal biscuits
- Make butter & buttermilk scones at Soetmelksvlei
- Make butter & buttermilk rusks at Soetmelksvlei
- Healing herbs: doepa with local finds at Soetmelksvlei
- Bank on it! Seed saving and swopping in the Soetmelksvlei garden
- Master meat: all about venison & biltong at Soetmelksvlei
- Nuts for pecans! Bake a pecan pie & carrot cake at Soetmelksvlei
- Love the taste of culinary herbs at Soetmelksvlei
- Cape cookery: traditional melktert, melkkos & koesisters at Soetmelksvlei
- Harness nature’s colours with fynbos dyeing at Soetmelksvlei
- Bake your own pies: 4 ways with traditional butter pastry at Soetmelksvlei
- Autumn abundance: pickle & preserve at Soetmelksvlei
- Bake with citrus & spice at Soetmelksvlei
- Hey, Brew! Fruit & flower cordials & bush teas
- Celebrate with chocolate & cake: bake your own treats at Soetmelksvlei
- Traditional handcrafts: Colour crocheting at Soetmelksvlei
- Cape food: learn to preserve seasonal guavas at Soetmelksvlei
- Cape food: bake your own farm-style loaves with seasonal marmalade at Soetmelksvlei
- Cape food: traditional bobotie with guava chutney at Soetmelksvlei
- Master meat: debone a chicken and make your own stock at Soetmelksvlei
- Berry feast: bake your own frangipane tart at Soetmelksvlei
- Cape food: seasonal green fig preserve at Soetmelksvlei
- Cape food: farm bread & kaiings at Soetmelksvlei
- Cape food: traditional bobotie & chutney at Soetmelksvlei
- Hands-on kids: bake & ice your own festive biscuits at Soetmelksvlei
- Soetmelksvlei Family Fun: learn how to make sun prints
- Amazing Race- Search for the Rabbits
Spa - Add On Treatments
- Back Message
- Back Message
Spa - Hammam (Turkish bath)
- Hammam Honey-and-Salt Scrub with Steam Combined with 30 min Full-Body Wrap
- Hammam Honey-and-Salt Scrub with Steam Combined with 60 min Full-Body Massage
Workshops
- Discover the secret life of bees
- Lavender & essential oils
- Discover & grow cycads
- Unlock the diversity of indigenous succulents
- Craft your own homemade soaps
- Sketching in Babylonstoren’s garden
- Risotto 101: a celebration of our farm-grown rice
- Explore the world of Babylonstoren’s olives
- Combat garden pests, naturally
Toss out the pesticides! Our botanist, Ernst van Jaarsveld, and entomologist, Arné Stander, will teach you how to plan a garden ecosystem that encourages predatory birds, insects, spiders and other garden animals to restore the balance ...
- Break bread with our master baker
Flour it up and learn to bake bread with our master baker, Peachy Jacobs, and her team. Guests are invited to dust their hands and put their backs into some kneading and impressive shaping. Peachy will share her secret recipes and sourd ...
- Autumn decor from the garden
We celebrate the new season in true Babylonstoren style by harvesting seasonal vegetables and autumn greens ripening into rich colour to use as farm-style decor. Join us as we explore different plant-based decorative styles for the tabl ...
- International Bee Day
- Winter gems: citrus in the garden
- Inside scoop: the secret to water buffalo mozzarella & gelato
- Compost 101: let’s get down and dirty
- Indoor gardening: bringing succulents into your home
- All about eggs: from coup to table
- Family fun: grow your own veggies (for kids aged 6–12 )
- Family fun: grow your own succulents from scratch (for kids aged 6–12)
- Family fun: move & breathe in the garden (for kids aged 6–12)
- Build your own garden structures
- Explore the magic world of mushrooms
- Create beautiful tree shapes with espalier
- The fascinating world of rocks, stone tools & rock gongs
- Sharpen your fruit-tree pruning skills
- Winter wonder: prune & weave with vines in the garden
- Harvest & distil Cape chamomile
- Forage for indigenous veld foods
- Grow your own spring vegetables
- Spring decor from the garden
- Encounter the beautiful world of fynbos
- Taste of spring: asparagus & artichokes
- Discover the secret life of insects
- Veg on fire! Get grilling with Babel’s head chef
- Discover the secrets of traditional Italian balsamic vinegar
- Encounter the colourful world of clivias and other indigenous bulbs
- Create a natural freshwater pond
- Grow your own summer vegetables
- Discover the healing powers of herbs
- Birding at Babylonstoren
- Pruning pros: focus on fruit trees in summer
- Grow your own edible & cut flowers
- Christmas decor from the garden
- Learn the ancient art of bookbinding at Soetmelksvlei