Farmer's Weekly

Time for R&R and some holiday flavour

Anton Roux, fruit-tree specialist and master pruner and grafter at Babylonstoren farm in the Boland, is an extraordinary advertisement for the health benefits of a gardening life. He leaves the idea of 10 000 steps a day in the dust and briskly walks 12km to 15km a day -carrying his bucket of gardening tools as well.

He started working in the fruit

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