‘How do they do it’ . personal edition

Johan runs a very professional fruit farm and the tour was great, I love the ‘how its made’ and ‘how do they do it’ programs and always looking for ideas from them, it always amazes me how we take simple stuff for granted.

The farm employs something like 3-400 full-time people and another 3-400 as pickers. and each employed person has five dependants at home , so the farm helps 3-4000 people in the Ceres area.

All the fruit goes to Europe or the USA, he even supplies ALDI UK and M&S

all the staff stopped and looked at me, probably recognizing me as the famous bd, or maybe because they were all wrapped up in jackets and I was in a t-shirt and shorts.. the looks were more likely to be ‘look at that idiot’

Milly liked the warm boilers
the farm uses all the cut wood to heat the ovens that dry the fruit.

we left and said our goodbye, Johan did his best to get us to stay the night, but I wanted to see the puppy crusher.

however I hadn’t noticed the time and the guy with the puppy crusher had departed for home.

we called Johan and he took us to his house he has on the farm

farmhouse in Ceres

we started chatting in the kitchen, and we knew Johan is building a new camper, Milly soon worked out and left me to bore him to death with details of how to design a camper, after a while , well many hours his head was steaming and I thought I should allow him to cool it under the tap. he woke us at 6 am walking around Dogger taking measurements and pictures, so maybe I didn’t bore him too much 🙂

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One thought on “‘How do they do it’ . personal edition

  1. Johan Van Den Berg
    Johan Van Den Berg says:

    Hi guys,

    Was an absolute pleasure having you over. Thanks for stopping by and glad we could assist with the running repairs on Dogger.
    Thanks for all the info on the camper and all the advice….priceless!!! Almost getting run off the track in northern Namibia eventually has it’s benefits, lol!!!
    All the best for your further travels through Africa and until we run into each other again.
    Best whishes!!!

    Johan.

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