Heritage Orchard to open on March 4, 2023 for free tour
The Tru-Cape Heritage Orchard at Oak Valley Estate in Elgin will host a free guided tour of its grounds Saturday, March 4th from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. The tour will highlight the conservation of heritage apple and pear varieties
The Grabouw Weekend Warrior is almost here!
Don't delay in securing your place for the Grabouw Weekend Warrior. To take full advantage of the peak apple season so that many of the orchards in the apple valley will still be laden with fruit while the mountain bikers explore
2022 Eselfontein MTB Fest raises more than R240,000.
The fundraising 2022 Tru-Cape Eselfontein MTB Festival, held in October, made a profit of R240,000. Organiser Janene Malherbe of Eselfontein which produces apples, pears and cherries for Tru-Cape, says decisions still need to be made about how the profit will
New book by fruit experts completes the trilogy.
Completing the trilogy, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing’s New Varietal Expert, Buks Nel and Quality Manager, Henk Griessel, have completed their third book, this time dedicated to pears. People, Pears and the Stories they Share will officially be launched at the XIV International
Our Quality Manager to compete in inter-provincial tournament
Tru-Cape Quality Manager, Laetitia Moggee, played tennis at school and only started playing squash after. In 2011, she started playing squash doubles for the first time and loved the game. She played her first doubles IPT (Inter-Provincial tournament) in 2011 in
Tru-Cape’s National Sales Manager rides in Karoo 2 Coast 2022
The Lions Karoo to Coast Mountain Bike challenge, supported by Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, is +/- 100km off-road race from Uniondale in the Karoo apple growing region of the Langkloof to Knysna. Tru-Cape growers in the area have been involved in
Women are being celebrated at Two-a-Day
Apple and pear processor Two-a-Day is one of the largest employers in the greater Elgin, Grabouw Villiersdorp and Vyeboom areas. Two-a-Day has been celebrating women since August but in October, a number of events are dedicated to raising awareness about the
One of the largest employers in Ceres pays staff earlier
Ceres Fruit Growers (CFG) has changed a near 100-year old practice to benefit its staff. According to Ceres Fruit Growers (CFG), one of the largest employers in the Ceres region, the lessons learned while coping with the COVID-19 pandemic have continued
Eselfontein 2021 raises R121, 000 for local charities.
The annual Tru-Cape Eselfontein Festival which comprises a three-stage mountain bike race and various trail runs, is a major fund-raising event for the local Ceres community. Janene Malherbe of Eselfontein, a Tru-Cape apple, pear and now cherry grower that also has
Tru-Cape hosting apple and pear tastings at Evergreens
Evergreens, the fresh market, based in Pretoria and Kempton Park, was started in 1984 by the Pereira family as a Housewives Market in Springs. In October 1992, 20-years ago next month, Evergreens opened in Pretoria and their Kempton Park branch
