Twice As Nice

24 Mar 2020 - Lauren Levi What could be better than a safari picnic in the middle of the Maasai Mara? Two picnics, of course. Lauren Levi recently discovered on her full-day safari exploring the Triangle that the choice of breathtaking picnic sites doubles. This tree? No, that one. On the banks of the Mara River? No, tucked under the Great Rift valley, please.

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From Hive To Table – The Great Honey Harvest

18 Jun 2019 - Alison Mitchell With tales of sleepy bees and buckets of honey, Alison Mitchell decided to join the Shamba keepers on a nocturnal harvesting mission

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More Drizzle than Dip, Thank you Zeus

9 Apr 2019 - Kate Fitzgerald Boyd For those of our followers whose Greek mythology is a bit rusty, read on to see that even a pesky god couldn’t put a dampener on a photo shoot

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A Farmer at Heart

19 Mar 2019 - William Naliki Olais Lemeyian Sowing and growing, seeding and weeding – it’s all in a day’s work for Shamba Keeper, Naliki

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Eating Earth

12 Mar 2019 - Ian Dommisse While soil and worm tea may not be on the menu at Angama, both play a vital role in creating a thriving Shamba and lovely garden-to-kitchen produce

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Safari On A Full Stomach

4 Dec 2018 - Ben Friedman Ben Friedman, Cofounder of Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches in Seattle, came to stay and lost his heart to the Shamba

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There Is Always Something To Do In The Kitchen

6 Nov 2018 - Nicky Fitzgerald Nearly 30 years ago a young chef from England joined Nicky and Steve for the opening of The Bay Hotel in Cape Town. Roll forwards to last week and a not-so-young Chef Graeme Cuthell reunited with a very-much-older Nicky in Angama’s kitchen for a week of some pretty serious training and a whole heap of fun

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Cooking Up a Shamba Storm

23 May 2017 - Nicky Fitzgerald Read about Chef Amanda’s visit to Angama Mara and how she and the Angama chef team overhauled the menu, celebrated the beautiful fresh produce from the Shamba and cooked up an absolute storm

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