Rosemary and chilli roasted sweet potatoes
Oct 29, 2026Sweet potatoes have always been so versatile. They can be boiled, mashed, added to stews or roasted until the edges turn golden and slightly crisp, and even the young leaves and stems are edible. We l
Hand rolled butter balls
Oct 15, 2026You might wonder why anyone would bother rolling butter into balls when you could just put a slab on a plate and be done with it. Fair question! But serving food is full of these small decisions. How
Good Seed and Food Festival
Oct 01, 2026Gobelo recently had the opportunity to attend the Good Seed and Food Festival in Harare, an event that welcomes farmers, food producers, seed custodians, researchers, entrepreneurs and others who are
Capers, hibiscus and another experiment
Sep 17, 2026Someone in the Gobelo group chat mentioned capers and hibiscus. That was enough to get everyone talking. It started with the usual simple question: could we grow them at Gobelo? We already spend quite
Why is there so much sand in Hwange
Sep 03, 2026There is Kalahari sand everywhere in Hwange. It surrounds the trees, it’s on the tracks, it’s on our farm, it’s everywhere you look. For many people visiting for the first time, one of the most
The saga of the missing peacocks
Aug 20, 2026There are some residents at Gobelo Farm who have become so much a part of everyday life that you hardly notice how attached everyone has become to them. Our peacocks are certainly among them. As we me
Looking into syrup
Aug 06, 2026At Gobelo, we do try as much as we can to source everything we need for our restaurants directly from the farm. Our farm to table approach is at the heart of what we do. There are things however, like
Mulberry breakfast compote
Jul 23, 2026We love fruit here at Gobelo Farm and we try to make the most of every one of them, finding as many creative ideas as we can to enjoy, prepare and even preserve them for when they are out of season. T
Dete and the many attempts to grow food
Jul 09, 2026If you spend enough time around Dete, you quickly realise that growing food here has never been straightforward. People often say nothing grows in these Kalahari sands, and when you first look around,
Gobelo at the Chief Shana Cultural Festival
Jun 25, 2026For quite some time, we have spoken about wanting to take Gobelo beyond the farm and into more community spaces, events and conversations. We have always believed that Gobelo is about so much more tha
Chaya, chive and cheese fritters
Jun 11, 2026We have talked about chaya before in our previous blogs and we have mentioned how useful a plant it is at Gobelo Farm. Also known as the spinach tree, chaya isn’t your average plant. It barely needs
We just discovered elderberry!
May 28, 2026We thrive on conversation around food, drinks or new flavours we could try at Gobelo. During a recent conversation, Elisabeth kept talking excitedly about a culinary experience from a trip she had tak
Gooseberry and lavender jam
May 14, 2026Experimenting is in our DNA! Sometimes simple curiosity like just wanting to see what different flavours might do together has led to some of these experiments. A good harvest where we have lots of he
Edible flowers
Apr 30, 2026For many gardeners every square inch is valuable and so it is always nice when you can grow everything you want on it and also have it looking good at the same time. Other than just being purely ornam
Chaya as chicken supplement
Apr 16, 2026We are always making small changes around the farm to improve how things work day to day. A slight adjustment in feed, a different way of propagating, or even just trying something simply because we a
Competition for Guavas, again
Apr 02, 2026It is that time of year again at Gobelo. The guava trees are bursting with fruit which tends to ripen far too quickly. And as always, we are not the only ones with our eyes on the trees.
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