Due to personal circumstances, our nice house including the surrounding grounds and vegetable farm are for sale.
The house, build in 2001, is located 20 'car minutes' East of the seaside resort Swakopmund, on the southern bank of the (dry) Swakopriver.
A few times per year a bit of water flows through the riverbed but even then, one can easily cross it by car. Rarely, the last time was in May 2000, the dry riverbed turns into a real river. But even then the water will neither reach the house nor the fields.
Right behind the house one can step into the Namib-Naukluft game park
Our land borders on the Namib-Naukluft park, this is one of the largest game parks in Africa.
For your reassurance: there are never dangerous predators near our place. On the other hand, almost daily, we see ostriches and gazelles. Only once there was a lost Kudu buck in our fields and maybe one time a year we can spot a troop of babboons.
Indiginous succulents and palm trees grow along the drive. There is plenty of groundwater to grow much more plants.
There are never dangerous predators near our place.
The terrace and an entry to the living room through sliding doors.
The nearby seaside resort Swakopmund provides about the same facilities as a small European city (a modern hospital, post office, police station, super-markets, hotels, restaurants, golf course etc.).
The climate feels Mediterranean although here's almost no rainfall (15 mm per year). Near the seaside, inside Swakopmund, it's often much cooler, during the winter there's often fog in Swakopmund while here at our farm it's nice and warm.
At the back of the house.
Only a small part of the land is used for agriculture.
Nursing the tomato plants.
One of the bore holes.
From here, the groundwater is
pumped to the drip lines of the fields
The asparagus fields get water through drip-lines which are connected with the submersible pump in the bore hole.
The groundwater is a bit brackish, that's why this water is only used for the irrigation of the fields where crops are growing which can live on brackish water.
From the main pipe line each section of the fields is provided with a branching pipe line. The drip-lines are connected onto these branches.
Tomato plants.
We've got permission to use a maximum of 50 m³
(11000 eng. gallons) per day from the municipal
water supply system (this is fresh drinking water,
not brackish) for the irrigation of our greenhouses
(we never use that much).
Cocktail tomatoes in a greenhouse made of shade cloth.