If the idea of escaping to the countryside to a place where time slows down, where rhythms are set by the rising and setting of the sun and the only alarms you’ll hear are those of a distant cockerel or a peckish farm animal baying for breakfast, then you have found a paradise in The Homestead.

The Garden Cottage is a fabulous option for a family or close friends. It offers 2 large double bedrooms, indoor and outdoor showers and even an outdoor bath where you can soak and stare up at a sky full of stars!

The cottage Looks on to the verdant veggie garden and is a stones throw from the beautiful swimming dam complete with jetty and little row boats. But the true magic of this place is the environment that surrounds it. For many of us city dwellers, there is a pull to a simpler way of life, something that feels more connected to nature. The homestead allows you to dream into that vision and for children – this is the greatest gift you can give them. An experience away from tech – surrounded by farm animals everything from goats, to chickens, cows and  pigs. With huge spaces to play and explore in, your kids will be dirty, happy and tired by sundown, giving you time to just relax, unwind and listen to the happy comforting sounds of a farm at night. From The Homestead you are in close proximity to Hermanus, the gorgeous little village of Stanford, De Kelders, Gansbaai from where you can explore wine farms, sea life, hiking trails, markets – you name it its happening in and around you – but you might also feel that you just want to exhale and breathe in the beauty and the tranquility of being in a beautiful place on a working farm and just stay put. And who could blame you? Every minute spent barefoot with grass between your toes or floating in the natural dam is soul time!