HONEYBUSH PROJECT TO BOOST GENADENDAL COMMUNITY

The historical town of Genadendal is the focus of a new indigenous knowledge project that aims to establish the town’s small farmers as independent producers of a unique African herbal tea. The project, which will run for three years until 2012, is funded by South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology.

Professor Lizette Joubert, expert honeybush researcher from the Agricultural Research Council, with a honeybush plant (Cyclopia maculata) with small yellow flower buds clearly visible. The flowers have a distinctive honey-like smell. (Read more...)