News & Feedback
🌳 Hogsback Garden Club – Tree Planting Update 🌳 A little report-back for our members: 48 indigenous trees were planted in our precious Arboretum on Tuesday, 8 September. 🌱 We…
From the Forest Floor
Our yearly cycle has started!As we head to warmer weather, and the spring bipolar weather in full swing, nature is coming back alive everywhere, in everything! From the seedlings, to…
Mammal Memoirs
We, the greater Hogsback community, are part of a unique society—different in many ways, yet connected by what we share. We believe our animals are sentient beings and valued members…
Echoes & Legends
(Bed-Time Short Stories… tangentially delivered.) The solar inverter hummed its low, monotone hymn against the wattle-and-daub wall of the kitchen. The house had long since forgotten the sound of the…
In the Air
Cape Parrot Project Just as Spring suddenly arrives, so does restoration season at the CPP. As part of our conservation implementation work, we undertake restoration work in and around the…
In the Air
By Nicole Steven-Jennings A few years back, I embarked on a journey to the land of my ancestors from my mother’s side of the family. I wanted to see first…
From the Mountain Tops
It’s a sunny summer Saturday morning, day 2 of a 3 day magical woman’s retreat, and I’m busy blending some herbs for the herbal ice tea served at breakfast. The…
Vents, Voices & Vision
The AI Poster Pandemic…AI might have industrialised mediocrity, but it didn’t invent it; … I mean we had Clip art, WordArt, Paint and stock photos before this… Remember those ‘Product…
Vents, Voices & Vision
Hogsback is beautiful. We know this. We live among the forests, the mist, the waterfalls and the mountains. But there is another side to living here. One that cannot be…
In the Air
How did September treat YOU? ♈ ARIESYou decided that because you’d survived winter, you were now invincible. September promptly tested that theory. You hiked, fixed things, started projects and attempted…
On the Ground
A community like Hogsback never stays still. It breathes. People drift in on the mist, drop anchor or just evaporate again. Some stay for a season… others – a lifetime…
SatireHogsback Whines
The Great Main Road Tsunami of 2026 For a brief, shining hour during September 2026, Hogsback was on full war footing. The WhatsApp groups detonated. Photographs circulated—distressing, high-contrast images of…
Closing Time
Skinner Snippets Dalk Demand Difference Definitions– Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize the flaws, corruption, or foolishness of individuals, institutions, or society.…
