Wow, that looks and sounds epic! Your pictures are really good too! Amazing how "old" methods of making things like coconut sugar still exist in this face paced world.
Those people really do live with less stress than we do here, in the cities - trying to make ends meet, buildings everywhere, no space to grow produce to refine and sell or eat.
Living off the grid in SA is a whole lot harder than in many other countries in the world... I WISH!!!! :)
GREAT READ BRO