“ Well, I’ ve been here all my life,” says Kevin from his deep recliner chair. Sue listens in the background, while Bruce joins us with his son Hunter in his arms.
“ My mother’ s been here all her life,” Kevin says.“ We’ ve been here since 1920, when my grandfather on my mother’ s side bought the land. Bruce is thus the fourth generation on BusyBend. He left school in Grade 11 and started working on the farm full-time. At the age of 11, he was already a seasoned auction buyer and the youngest buyer at his first auction.‘ But Dad had to pay,’” he says with a smile.
Christopher is the older brother and farms for his aunt, while their sister Megan is a primary school teacher in Mooi River.“ When Bruce came out of the hospital, he was very small, and everyone on the farm called him Kacha, a name that still sticks today,” Sue says.
2. Built for the tougher veld, the Brahmans of BusyBend thrive where resilience, adaptability and generations of stockmanship come together.