Experience the ‘Taste of the Veld’
Giselle Courtney decided to move to Wellington to seek a new lifestyle for her family. This region, once covered in fynbos, soon captured her heart when she discovered the critically
endangered remnant of the Swartland Renosterveld on her Wellington farm.
It was Giselle’s search for her true South African identity that led her to discover fynbos’ unique flavours, and so she became the founder of the distinctive South African Fynbos brand, with its range of indigenous herbs and seasonings. Her hope is that one day we would all share in the herbs indigenous to our country and that, eventually, these flavours would become part of the herbs of the world. Giselle strives tirelessly to put South Africa’s indigenous herbs on the world’s culinary map. When asked what motivates this passion, she speaks of the days of the East Indian Trading Company and how the intricate flavours of fynbos have been overlooked all throughout history. In those years, when ships docked at the Cape on their way to the Far East, a wealth of flavour was hidden under our forefathers’ noses and stayed that way for many years. Her avid search for identity had less to do with an individual need to belong and more with the need she noticed in her fellow South Africans. She describes them as “custodians of the Big Five”, entrusted with natural gems bigger than ourselves.
Fynbos farmer, Giselle Courtney
Giselle strives tirelessly to put South Africa’s indigenous herbs on the world’s culinary map. “ „
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