Tucked into the soft foothills of South Africa’s Franschhoek mountains, Sterrekopje Farm is a 50-hectare sanctuary where the wild world leads the way. Here, luxury isn’t loud — it’s the quiet joy of dirt under your nails, bread rising in the oven, horses greeting you at sunrise. It’s long breaths, slow days, and remembering what it feels like to belong to the land.

This is a working farm — alive, growing, healing. Regenerative practices nourish soil and soul alike, while ancient wisdom and modern creativity weave through every experience. Seasonal food, herbcraft, rituals, the very architecture — everything moves with nature’s rhythms, inviting you to do the same.

Over the past three years, partners in both life and purpose, Fleur Huijskens and Nicole Boekhoorn, have brought Sterrekopje’s ancestral grounds back into vibrant abundance. What has emerged is not a hotel, not quite a retreat — but a living ecosystem. A home. A community. A place where travelers arrive as guests and depart as part of the story.

Stay

Eleven sanctuaries — each a cocoon of calm — welcome you with botanical hues, hand-crafted textures and artworks grown from the land itself. Designed by Gregory Mellor with Nicole Boekhoorn, every space feels rooted and replenishing. Float in the saltwater pool, dive into the lake, wander barefoot from warm sun to the grounding rituals of the Bath Hou

Rest

Across The Bath House, The Apothecary, The Yurt and The Soul Shed, a circle of holistic practitioners hold space for rest that goes deeper than sleep. Treatments draw on biodynamic principles and herbal medicine, tuning you back to the body’s quiet wisdom — the kind that only emerges when we finally, truly, slow down.

Grow

Seasonal retreats open doors into connection — with yourself, the earth and each other. From women’s gatherings to “Gardening as a Creative Act” alongside landscape designer Leon Kluge, these experiences encourage shared learning, stewardship and wonder. Think seed saving, soil tending, herbalism and artistry — all led by the turning of the seasons.

Grow

Seasonal retreats open doors into connection — with yourself, the earth and each other. From women’s gatherings to “Gardening as a Creative Act” alongside landscape designer Leon Kluge, these experiences encourage shared learning, stewardship and wonder. Think seed saving, soil tending, herbalism and artistry — all led by the turning of the seasons.