Heesom at Rickety Bridge winery.

During Jeremy Heesom's time, some of the farm outbuildings were converted into packing sheds for the varieties of fruit being produced. This included five varieties of plum, four varieties of peaches and three of pears. All this meant that, during the harvest, the packers were busy in the sheds sixteen hours a day packing the fruit which was all sold on the overseas market.

On the slopes of the Dassenberg, behind the buildings, Jeremy planted fir trees, mentioning that the carpet of pine needles prevented erosion, which, although he had never been back to the farm, Jeremy assured me had become a problem again when the trees were cut down by a later owner, Robin Singer. 

Jeremy’s parents lived on and worked Zorgvleit and the family shared a lorry between the the two farms. This meant work could not be done simultaneously at both farms, with whatever damage to the quality of the harvested grapes is not known, but Jeremy was rather proud of the economy of the idea.

On his mother’s death, Jeremy inherited Zorgvleit and moved there, selling Sanddrift to the McNaughts.

The picture shows the restaurant created during Spence's time.

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