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Chasing across Limpopo & Zimbabwe in search of a tree

Published on Thursday, 1 February 2018 08:28 Category: Plants

By Avril Harvey Part I Driving through the Karoo in the Western Cape in the early hours of the morning I had a surfeit of time to think about the project we were embarking on. We were heading to Limpopo and Zimbabwe on a 10 day trip to look...

Changing Climate, Changing Times

Published on Thursday, 1 February 2018 08:14 Category: Parceval

As every year recorded is hotter than the last, Parceval is also beginning to feel the effects of our changing weather and climate patterns. Not only is the Western Cape, which Parceval calls home, in a severe drought, but some of our partners and supply chains are also feeling...

The first seeds of Samara have been planted

Published on Thursday, 1 February 2018 07:44 Category: Samara

Samara Foundation is about sowing seeds of opportunity in rural communities where access to quality education, resources and income opportunities are hard to come by. As we move into the new year and consider what needs we need to address in 2018, Samara would like to reflect on the...

Parceval attends PhytoTrade Africa event in Paris

Published on Thursday, 1 February 2018 07:28 Category: Parceval

How do BioTrade networks contribute to a sustainable economy? This was a question that was explored and some answers presented at a PhytoTrade Africa event that Parceval attended in Paris in December 2017. This event gathered organisations and businesses from Southern Africa and from Europe, and information and experience...

Myrothamnus: embarking on a new venture

Published on Tuesday, 7 November 2017 12:16 Category: Plants

Parceval is set to embark on a new venture together with Bio-Innovation Zimbabwe to bring a novel product to the market: a tea made from Myrothamnus flabellifolia. Parceval and Bio-Innovation Zimbabwe have been granted R1 million in seed funding from the Finnish/ South African Partnership, BIOFISA II to...

New beginnings on Waterkloof Farm

Published on Tuesday, 7 November 2017 12:16 Category: Plants

The Agathosma betulina seedlings looked fragile against the dark earth as they were planted. Yet this shrub, commonly known as Buchu, is hardy once it has taken root and needs little care, making it ideal for the upper slopes of our organic farm, Waterkloof. Earlier this year the farm...

Madagascar, home to the wonder-plant Centella asiatica

Published on Monday, 4 July 2016 08:52 Category: Consulting

The rain came softly at first, a gentle pitter-patter on the umbrella above us, but then the heavens opened and a cascade of rain hit the streets of Antananarivo. Rivers began to stream down the cobbled streets of the city centre and cracks of thunder reverberated above. Then the...

Somaliland, country of myrrh and frankincense

Published on Monday, 4 July 2016 08:47 Category: Consulting

The first impression one gets of Somaliland is one of heat and dry landscapes. Shrubs and trees grow amongst the rocky landscape, but not much else. But then comes a thunderstorm and the self-same landscape becomes a river, a surface of water that then once again dries up and...

What’s in a name: understanding our tinctures

Published on Monday, 4 July 2016 08:42 Category: Tinctures

Terminology in any field isn’t easy to understand and complementary medicine has its own complex lexicon. To understand Parceval’s tinctures, we therefore provide an overview here of the terms we use. We name our tinctures according to the following system: ECHINACEA PURPUREA HERBA Ø HAB 3A Genus Species Plant...

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