{"id":49420,"date":"2021-01-28T13:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/tee-berge-en-sielerus-20210127-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:02:02","slug":"tee-berge-en-sielerus-20210127-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/tee-berge-en-sielerus-20210127-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tee, berge en sielerus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_dbb3bd7a\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10846\/4d2c2745e3d24346b353e87f06f6e81d.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/10846\/037424494ca84d57861892343a666124.jpg\" title=\"Lorenzo Plank besig om heuningbostee te oes hoog teen die hange van die Kougaberge.                          Foto\u2019s: HEILIE COMBRINCK\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Lorenzo Plank besig om heuningbostee te oes hoog teen die hange van die Kougaberge.                          Foto\u2019s: HEILIE COMBRINCK<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>TEEBLARE kan glo gelees word \u2026 maar die klein stukkies teeblare waarna ek onder in my le\u00eb koppie staar, wil nie gelees word nie. Hulle vertel hul eie storie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019n Storie wat ek met my eie o\u00eb en die res van my sintuie, daar doer hoog bo in die allermooiste Kougaberge beleef het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N\u00e1 my besoek op Nooitgedacht, die plaas waar die heuningbos geoes word, kan ek nie anders nie om elke keer my Melmont heuningbostee, of bergtee soos dit ook genoem word, met toe o\u00eb te drink nie. Want di\u00e9 aroma neem my gedagtes keer op keer terug na die vroegoggend, sowat 1200 meter bo seevlak, waar Lorenzo Plank, Taswell Windvogel en Julian Booysen teen steil berghellings met soveel sorg en versigtigheid bondels bergtee oes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Volhoubaarheid verseker voortbestaan<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Met elke kap en trek van die sekel se skerp lem teen die heuningbosteetakkies, ruik jy heilsaamheid. Die manne beweeg so vlugvoetig soos ribbokke teen die steiltes, van een heuningbos na die ander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018n Mens weet nie wat jy nie weet nie, maar as jy eers weet, verander dit jou dinkdinge \u00e9n optrede. Ek weet nou met hoeveel passie die teekappers hierdie kosbare bondels gesondheid oes. Ek weet nou dat volhoubaarheid van heuningbos daar in die Kougaberge vir \u2019n boer en sy gemeenskap van uiterste belang is vir voortbestaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quinton en Eunice Nortje is die vierde generasie wat op Nooitgedacht met heuningbostee boer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit is vir hulle \u2019n holistiese saak waarin die plaaspersoneel en gemeenskap net so \u2019n groot aandeel het om toe te sien dat die organiese bergtee steeds \u2019n oes vir toekomstige generasies sal oplewer. En vir baie jare nog vir hulle \u2019n inkomste sal bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Japanners is gek oor di\u00e9 tee<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melmont se organiese heuningbostee is erg gesog onder teedrinkers, veral in Japan, Duitsland en Nederland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Om aan die internasionale markte te kan bly voorsien, moet daar aan ellelange lyste van standaarde voldoen word. Melmont se bergtee slaag jaar na jaar die toets met vlie\u00ebnde vaandels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTeekopers wil net die beste produk h\u00ea. Dit bemark ook die maklikste,\u201d s\u00ea Quinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy vertel van verskeie navorsers, plaaslik sowel as internasionaal, wat betrokke is by Melmont heuningsbostee. Dit was juis \u2018n navorser van Universiteit Vrystaat se chemie-departement, professor Daniel Ferreira, wat di\u00e9 instansie se taalkunde department genader het vir \u2019n gepaste naam vir die tee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie naam Nooitgedacht heuningbostee sou nou nie so goed op internasionale markte werk nie. Daarom het hulle met die naam Melmont vorendag gekom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit is Latyns en Mel beteken heuning en Mont berg. Dit pas mos nou perfek want ons heuningbostee word net in die Kougaberge, oes na oes uit dieselfde omgewing en hoogte bo seevlak gehaal. Ons meng nie ons tee met enige ander heuningbostee nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quinton s\u00ea \u2019n heuningbos word elke vierde jaar geoes om die plantjie weer genoeg hersteltyd te gee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie heuningbos kyk mooi na ons \u2013 daarom moet ons mooi kyk na die heuningbos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kougaberge se natuurprag<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die Kougaberge l\u00ea parallel met die Baviaansberge in \u2019n ongerepte deel van die Oos-Kaap waar natuurprag jou keer op keer verras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Op pad na Nooitgedaght kronkel die grondpad deur klowe, \u2019n geelhoutwoud, bergpasse en oor plato\u2019s waar \u2019n mens onwillekeurig jou voertuig se rem trap, uitklim en kyk en nogmaals kyk. \u2019n Foto laat dit wat die oog hier sien, nie tot reg kom nie, jy moet dit beleef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit is hierdie mooi uit die natuur wat \u2019n mens teen die mure van jou kop se onthoukamer ophang, en wanneer die onmenslikheid van COVID-19 en die gepaardgaande inperkings jou vasdruk, dan kuier jy in jou geestesoog in hierdie natuurbeelde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oom Freek se Huisie<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jy hoef nie \u2019n teedrinker te wees nie om die mooie Kougaberge te verken . Vir die buitelugliefhebber en diegene wat met so min moontlik soveel moontlik in die natuur wil geniet, is daar \u2018n hele paar oorblyplekke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daar is Ragelsrivier op \u2019n buurplaas wat plaasakkommodasie en kampplekke bied en op Nooitgedacht self is daar Oom Freek se Huisie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hier in Oom Freek se Huisie is tyd vasgevang soos in die dae toe einste Oom Freek en sy Hester en later jare nadat sy weggeval het, tant Sarie daar gebly het. Hulle het swaargekry, maar volhard deur harde werk. Uit die natuur geleef en gesorg dat hulle vir die natuur teruggee om volhoubaar daar te kon aanhou leef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit is ook hier waar Quinton een oggend vir tant Sarie in die perskeboord langs die rivier gekry het met oom Freek se kop op haar skoot. Hier het oom Freek die ewigheid ingegaan. \u2019n Mens sou dink dit is waar die uitdrukking \u201cdoodtevrede\u201d vandaan kom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So 100 meter vanaf die ou boord, berg-op, staan Oom Freek se Huisie. Dit is die eenvoud, die geprut van die pot heuningbostee op die gasstoof, die oopswaai vroegoggend van kombuis-bodeur om na die gekok-kok-kok van die loerie uit die bos te luister wat \u2018n gejaagde gemoed hier stil maak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En al hou oom Freek se o\u00eb uit sy geraamde portret teen die muur jou dop, weet jy, dit is oukei. Om te leef en te laat leef, met respek teenoor ander te leef, om dit wat die natuur jou bied, op te pas, volhoubaarheid \u2026 dit is die storie wat die heuningbosteeblare onder in my koppie vertel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEEBLARE kan glo gelees word &#8230; maar die klein stukkies teeblare waarna ek onder in my le\u00eb koppie staar, wil nie gelees word 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