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Photographer: Bjorn Groenewald
September 16, 2024

The Hans Merensky Chair in Advanced Modelling of Eucalypt Growth and Wood Formation (EucXylo) at Stellenbosch University (SU) officially launched its state-of-the-art IMPACT (Intensive Monitoring of Planted And Competing Trees) Open-Air Laboratory (OAL) on 11 September 2024 at Lourensford Farm, Somerset West. This research facility, a key component of the EucXylo programme, is designed to […]

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June 24, 2024

Lourensford Road in Somerset West is set to become a beautiful, tree-lined avenue, following an ambitious planting programme undertaken by the Heart of the Helderberg Initiative, and led by Vergelegen and Lourensford wine estates. The avenue had lost established trees due to heavy storms, with further losses incurred after infestation by the polyphagous shot-hole borer beetle, […]

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March 13, 2024

Die spreekwoord lui “When your legs get tired, cycle with your heart”, en twee dapper manne, Martin Cilliers en Jaco Swanepoel, gaan dit letterlik en figuurlik ten doel stel. In die uitdagende 8-daelange Absa Cape Epic 2024 fietstoer, gaan hulle alles gee om fondse in te samel ten bate van KANSA (Kanker Assosiasie van Suid-Afrika). […]