Tagged: fire ecology

1. 01 The place · 2 Jun 2026 How Rooibos Is Grown, From Dormant Seed to Rested Field Here is how the red bush actually gets planted, grown, and rested, from a seed that refuses to wake up to a field given years off to recover.
2. 02 The place · 1 Apr 2026 How Wild Rooibos Is Harvested, and Why It Rests Every Other Year Wild rooibos is not planted, ploughed, or sown in rows. It is cut by hand from the veld on a rule harvesters worked out mostly by watching what killed a bush and what let it come back, later confirmed by a decade of field research.
3. 03 The plant Fynbos Fynbos is the fine-leaved shrubland that covers South Africa's southwestern Cape and the ground rooibos calls home. What the shrubland is made of, why fire keeps it alive, and the protection and the threats the whole system now lives under.