Who Are We?

Sabie Valley coffee is owned and managed by Tim and Kim Buckland, and is located at Three Rivers, the confluence of the Sabie, Sabaan and Mac-Mac Rivers in the Mpumalanga Lowveld, near the town of Hazyview.

Tim                          Kim

The coffee farming venture started off with very humble initial stages in 1980. To begin with,15 hectares of coffee orchards were planted. As time passed, we realised that growing green coffee to be supplied to local merchants was not going to be a money-wise option. So in 1984 a roaster and other tools were built by Tim, and the farming process was streamlined. From then on we developed a unique roasting technique, and the farm began producing its own roasts under the Sabie Valley Coffee brand.

From the late 1990’s the world coffee prices began to decline to record low levels, and this in effect ended the South African coffee industry with almost all of the coffee producers electing to remove their coffee and plant alternative crops.  For Sabie Valley Coffee to succeed in this situation, we had to restructure again. Due to the geography and soil types on Riverbend Farm, we decided to keep the coffee farm, and to diversify this by doing farm tours and becoming involved with tourism.

Today Sabie Valley Coffee is sold to many niche markets, such as the Lowveld Spar group, private game lodges, restaurants, coffee shops and up market road stalls.  Our most flourishing development to date, has been to supply coffee nationwide by posting it directly to our customers.

To ORDER COFFEE, please click on the PRODUCTS button above, or the "Coffee Roasts" link, or the "Sabie Valley Coffee" link on the left of the page; this will take you to our products page.

"Behind Every Successful Woman is a Substantial Amount of Coffee"