Projects

Velloorsdrift Bakery Catalogue

Our standard 700g+ white bread sliced - R14 per bread (10 or more) Our standard 700g+ white bread sliced - R15 per bread Rolls (hamburger & hotdog) - R25 per six rolls Naked Chocolate Cake (moist round cake with icing or imitation cream…

Velloorsdrift Bakery

Velloorsdrift Bakery was started to serve the Onseepkans community and surrounding area with freshly baked quality bread and confectionary. Through the years we saw a great need in our disadvantaged community for fresh baked bread and confectionary. Beginning of 2021 we decided to start…

Vegetables

Right from the start when we first came to Onseepkans in 2011 we realized that vegetable gardening will be an essential part of our mission, both for us and the community around us. Over the course of the next 12 years we learned a…

Fruit trees

We experimented with many fruit trees, including olives, figs, guava, mango, litchi, orange, grapefruit, lemon, granadilla, grape, peaches, plums, apricot, apples, quinches, dates and moringa. Eventually we decided to continue with olives, figs, guava, mango, grape fruit and lemon for the mission, but none…

Chickens

Our chicken project supply fresh eggs for the bakery and the mission, as well as nitrogen rich manure for our vegetable garden. This project is still in experimental phase to see if it is worth while in the long run.

Date trees

Dates and date palm cultivation is our mission’s main agricultural project. Although we have different varieties of dates, our main focus is the cultivation of Medjool dates. We consider the development of our date plantations to be a long term investment for our mission.…