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Don Pinnock

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Freelance writer and photographer. Former editor of Getaway magazine, naturalist and photographer
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Bread & Wine: What’s the future of wheat and wine farming? (Part Six)

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By Don Pinnock Verified
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HARD ROW TO HOE Wine increasingly needs weddings, restaurants and wealthy owners. Wheat needs scale, outside income and good rain. What happens when the crops can no longer pay for the landscape? Canola and wheat fields in the early spring with the bold yellow colours of canola offset by the emerald green of the wheat, Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa. (Photo: Gallo Images / Peter van der Byl) This is the sixth in a six-part series. Read Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five.
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Bread & Wine: The chemical trail through wheat and grapes (Part Five)

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By Don Pinnock Verified
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SPRAY TELL There’s a price to pay for our love of bread and wine in the chemicals commonly used to grow wheat and grapes. Most of that bill is paid in farm soils, neighbouring veld and rivers downstream. But traces can also travel beyond the farm fence. The use of agricultural chemicals and fertilisers is necessary with high-production crops, but there is an environmental cost in many instances. (Photo: Gallo Images / Michael D Kock) This is the fifth in a six-part series.
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Stone galleries of the ancients: The |Xam, silenced artists of Agter Pakhuis

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By Don Pinnock Verified
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In a part of the northern Cederberg known as the Agter Pakhuis, a remote cottage stands at the foot of black-and-gold sandstone cliffs. A stream runs nearby and supplies its water. The cottage is called Perdehoek, for no reason I could discover. Further along the mountain is another, called Hoek Sonder Koffie, its name equally mysterious. A remote cottage in the northern Cederberg’s Agter Pakhuis.
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