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Land · October 2026
Learning the shape of the land
The orchard, the swales, the frost and the slow work of understanding a place before trying to change it.
First story coming soonWork · Land · Field · Life
TheColeys
Notes from the life
we’re building.
A personal journal by Cameron Coley
Explore01 / Hello
I’m Cameron.
I build businesses, fly falcons and am slowly restoring an old family place in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
This is where I keep the parts that don’t fit neatly on a business website: what I’m learning, what I’m building, where I’ve gone wrong, and the ordinary days I’d rather not forget.
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Mallory · Lanner falcon · 2022
A life outside
Some things only make sense in the field.
Falconry has shaped how I see patience, attention and trust. Land does much the same. Neither cares how convincing your plan looked on paper.
From the journal
Things worth
remembering.
Updates from the businesses, the farm, the field and everywhere in between.
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Field · In season
What a passage hawk teaches you
Patience, observation and the uncomfortable fact that progress rarely happens in a straight line.
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Work · From the archive
Before Powerbox, there were experiments
An early idea called Taproot, a prototype made by hand, and the ventures that taught me how much I still had to learn.
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The point of it all
Build a good business—and leave enough life to actually enjoy it.
The work matters. So do the birds, old trees, friendships, physical projects, ridiculous experiments and time outside. The ambition is not to choose one life at the expense of the other.
Follow a thread
An archive, eventually
It starts with one person. It doesn’t have to end there.
For now, this is my record. Over time, The Coleys can become somewhere for family stories, photographs, places and memories that deserve more than a forgotten folder.
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