Marketing department

The newest member of Oude Wellington Estate and in charge of marketing, hospitality and research is Lizel. With loads of experience and ideas she single handed created the "marketing department" here on the farm. Since she took over this well neglected "department" sales have increased significantly as well as our data bank. She is also the one that can with enormous patience get through to Government departments - unlike us common mortals who fail to get past the first friendly "The lady who deals with your query is on training leave" leaving us wonder when she will be trained to attend to our problem. Lizel is always in a good mood even when it gets busy and hectic. With one word it is a pleasure to work with Lizel and our customers are full of compliments about her. As you can see it does get cold in South Africa and I added this picture to make my European friends feel better about their own summer.

Vegetable

Aren't they impressive? These freshly picked courgettes are Sydney's pride and joy. With great dedication he had started growing vegetables on an experimental scale in a small self constructed hothouse without soil, just water and nutrition and seeds. As the photo proves they are even bigger than a Landrover (toy Landi that is). They are indeed quite big and an outright success. Needless to say we are looking forward to fresh tomatoes and other veggies on our dinner plates. Sydney really is into this new hobby and he is daily seen with a tape measure recording the progression of growth of his "babies", while "THE" peacock (that is THE peacock that has single "beakingly" annihilated any other attempt of gardening within his infamous reach)is impatiently waiting for his chance to raid the place. But seriously, we are all impressed as to how fast and neat the veggies are growing in this method called hydroponics.