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Writer Martin Hatsuel tells our story! Click on this link for a fantastic read. https://www.tourismcontent.co.za/blog/post/featherbed-nature-reserve-knysna-history-to-2008/https://www.tourismcontent.co.za/blog/post/featherbed-nature-reserve-knysna-history-to-2008/

Sideroxylon inerme subsp. inerme (aMasethole or white milkwood, Afrikaans: wit-melkhout, Xhosa: Ximafana, Zulu: Umakhwelafingqane) is a Southern African coastal tree, with dense foliage, black berries and small, foetid, greenish flowers. The tree's generic name means "Iron-wood" in Greek, referring to its very hard timber. Milkwood Trees are endemic to the Knysna area and Featherwood Nature Reserve. See our previous post: "Seed Balls". Visitors to Featherbed Nature Reserve wo

Have you ever wondered how the Knysna heads came into existence? We asked a geologist, and this is what we learned....

Our biochar seedballs are designed to help supplement the seed stock that survived in the soil after the Knysna fires of 2017, and to help stabilise the sandy soil on the steep slopes of the reserve. On this page we: Explain what our seedballs are made of; and Provide a list and descriptions of the indigenous seeds embedded in the seed balls we’re distributing at Featherbed Nature Reserve. What are seed balls made of... Our seedballs are made up of seeds embedded in a mix o

Visitors to Knysna are familiar with The John Benn, a double-decker floating restaurant offering daily Lagoon cruises to the Knysna Heads. But, who was John Benn?

When you visit the SANParks’ Thesens Island offices in Knysna you will meet our most precious inhabitant: the Knysna Seahorse!

A quick internet search tells us that Coelacanths, are from the order Coelacanthiformes, (an ancient group of lobe-finned fish, also known as Sarcopterygii), and in the class Actinistia. In layman’s terms, they are more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) than to ray-finned fish.

Featherbed had to take stock and rebuild what was lost but decided to come back bigger than ever before. We decided to pay homage to what once was and repurposed the some of kitchen items which were spared the carnage. The chandeliers were designed and manufactured by Adele Webster.

The fires that swept through the Garden Route, raged for about ten days from the 7th of June 2017, destroyed almost 20,000 hectares of the region, and at Featherbed, reduced most of the vegetation to ashes. Featherbed Co. remains not only committed to restoring the natural habitat at Featherbed after the savage destruction left in the wake of the Knysna Fires of 2017 but also to prevent that horror from happening again.