Most of what goes into our bottles comes from people we deal with ourselves. We drive out, sit down with growers, agree a price and a harvest date, and collect.
CLIENT
HELDERBERG ROSES
GROWER
DAWID ESTERHUIZEN
CLIENT
HELDERBERG ROSES
LOCATION
Rosehaze/WOOD
PROJECT WITH DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
Working with one grower has limits. When the fire season is bad, or the rain comes late, there is simply less fynbos and we make fewer bottles. We have chosen to live with that instead of buying from a broker who cannot tell us which hillside the plants came from. Customers sometimes wait a few weeks for a restock. Most say they would rather wait, which is not something we expected when we started out, and it has shaped how we plan. Restock dates go out by email, nothing more.
FAQs
How this can be done for me?
Fynbos for our face oil is grown on a smallholding outside Stellenbosch by a family who have farmed the slope since the nineties. They cut only what regrows, which means some seasons we get less than we asked for. We take the short harvest rath
One Farm
Buchu and fynbos arrive from one smallholding on the Stellenbosch slopes.
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Harvest size sets our production, not the other way round.
Visiting
Sacks and drums go back to the farm for reuse.
ONE FARM
Buchu and fynbos arrive from one smallholding on the Stellenbosch slopes.
ONE FARM
Batches stay small, so nothing sits on a shelf waiting to be sold.
HARVEST LED
Harvest size sets our production, not the other way round.