Whilst on the long arduous train journey from south Africa to Egypt Philip and his fellow soldiers passed through what was then Northern Rhodesia, also under British Rule. Philip was instantly enchanted by the endlessness and beauty of this land and vowed that after the war, God willing, he would return and make a life for himself and his family.

Philip did indeed survive the Second World War and returned to the land he had dreamed of constantly during his long night in the Sahara. He found his farm in the small community of Mazabuka and set about buying 2000 acres from the Government. He paid two shillings and sixpence an acre.

He sent for his wife Hazel, his first born son Alan, and together with their African staff sweated and toiled under the relentless sun to carve out the beginning of what was to be a family tradition. In those early days all land preparation was done with oxen and drawn plough. This farm was named Streetlea in and area of Mazabuka called Nega Nega situated at the foothills of the Munali Pass. Munali was the African name given to David Livingstone and it was from these hills that Livingstone first saw the Kafue River. Philip and Hazel had two more children, Judi born in 1944 and Colin Philip born in 1946

By the time he was ten he could dose and inject the cattle, he was fluent in the local language Tonga and he could strip and repair a tractor. As for schooling, his mother tried to give him the initial elementary lessons but he would always escape to be out on the land with his father. Eventually Colin was sent to boarding school.

Schooling completed, Colin returned to the farm at Nega Nega and began working with his father. During this early period of his return, Colin met and married Alison, an English girl.

Times became very hard, Streetlea was running out of water so they decided to sell the farm and look for a place to work that had plenty of water. Colin rented a farm, Chifumpu and it was there that their three children Warren, born 1972, Gregory, in 1973 and Karen, 1976 were brought up. For sixteen years, growing mostly potatoes and seed maize, the family lived and worked this farm. In 1984 Colin's mother died. It was at this time that a piece of land came up for sale in the hills of the upper Kaleya valley. This was the piece of land Colin had been waiting for.

When Colin and Alison moved onto Terranova in 1986 there was no electricity, no buildings, no boreholes, no dams and no cleared land to speak of. They employed two bricklayers and between them split the work. Colin built a weir on the Kaleya River, which bounded their land, and Alison built the stables and sheep pens. The rainy season was imminent therefore time was of the essence. They lived in a tiny house, Philip, Colin, Alison and the three children (when they were home from boarding school).

In the space of three months, working from sun up to sundown the weir, workshops, stables, sheep pens and the first dam was completed. At the same time the nursery with new coffee seedling was up and underway. During the rainy season land was stumped and cleared, preparing for the first batch of seedlings form the nursery. A coffee estate was born.

Lexi and Warren Street

Gregory, in the meantime, had also completed his schooling and he too, decided he wanted to work in the bush, but on the hunting side of the business. Gregory spent two years in the bush before coming home to Terranova to farm. He and his father now run the coffee estate together. The call of the bush beckons Greg every year and he goes off to remote parts of the country to hunt for a month.

Greg and Michael Street