Ancestral-themed wild food forage and lunch - 6th December

The dramatic landscapes of Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope have long held spiritual and cultural meaning for the Khoisan people. Archaeological discoveries reveal caves, stone tools, and ancient shell middens, evidence of human life here stretching back over 120,000 years.

At the Buffelsfontein Visitor Centre, the award-winning Origins of Early Southern Sapiens Exhibition brings these stories to life through interactive displays, curated by filmmaker Craig Foster and archaeologist Petro Keene.

Just beyond the reserve, RE Wild Food invites you to connect with this heritage. Join a coastal foraging adventure, exploring edible seaweeds and shellfish, then gather around the fire for an ancestral-inspired feast of mussels, fresh fish, wild greens, and eland — a taste of history, reimagined.

This experience will introduce you to some of our local edible seaweeds, molluscs and wild plants. Explore rock pools at low tide, learn how to sustainably harvest and prepare them. 

On a good weather day, we can prepare and enjoy the foraged meal together at the Buffelsfontein campsite. If it is too windy or raining we will move the forage to Scarborough beach and have the lunch in our cosy clay home.