Goedgedacht: olives with a purpose

Goedgedacht is an olive farm and a community development trust. Its income supports the Path out of Poverty programme for children and young people in the rural Swartland.

Visitors can buy olive oil, walk the Olive Peace Grove, take on marked trails from about 2.8 to 13.4 kilometres, and book a high tea set up in a tree. Check in at the main house and pay a small fee for the trails.

It is a good stop on the way into or out of the valley, and a reminder that the farms here are also communities.

Book the tree tea ahead. It is popular, and it is not every day you take tea in a tree.