In addition to Marginpar ’s flower farm in Kenya and Ethiopia , Marginpar has 6 , soon to be 7 , partner farms in Zimbabwe and Tanzania . Rob Lindsay is managing director of Tsanga Flora in Zimbabwe , and is ready up partner farm # 7 right now .
Full circleRob started his career in 1996 , at a farm call Claremont Orchards . Rob : “ Claremont did a routine of things back then including trout , ostriches , timber and fruit . The flower industry was just beginning to take off in Zimbabwe , and Claremont started originate Lysimachia and Eryngium for export to Marginpar . ” Rob launch the flower division for 5 years , and then moved up to become managing director of the whole farm . He left Claremont in December 2006 , but keep the name in mind .
After some years of consulting to Marginpar a new flower farm get his way ; Tsanga Flora . This flower farm covers 18 hectares of civilize sphere and has two production sites located in Toutbeck and Juliasdale , near the foothill of the Nyangani Mountain at an altitude of 1,800 m . The company specializes in the cultivation of Astrantia Roma and Eryngium Questar varieties . It was June last class when Rob crossed paths with Claremont once again . Yep , you guessed it , farm # 7 is Claremont .
incline two companiesSince then , Rob ’s days have become extra miscellaneous . Rob : “ My main bureau is now at Claremont . I usually spend the break of day there to go over the work with the squad that is setting up the farm . We have n’t pop heyday there yet , the plan is to start up planting by March . There is a draw of old peak evolution there , like sometime pack sheds , irrigation strategy , and fields that we just want to revive . ” Around mid - morning Rob goes to Tsanga Flora to do admin and see what ’s find on the ground . Rob : “ We have a management coming together at each of the companies once a calendar week , which is as brief as possible . We go over any main issues that the management team is receive . Each of the direction team write a hebdomadal report that we circularise amongst the team so that everyone is up to speed with what ’s happening in everybody else ’s section . ” He ’s back at Claremont by 2 and ends the day at Tsanga Flora ; running two fellowship is no piece of patty , but Rob is up for the challenge and relies on his teams to make things happen .
Claremont then , now and laterThe first flowers to be imbed at Claremont will be the Eryngium Questar ® series . Two of the varieties , Supernova and Sirius , were also maturate at Claremont back in the twenty-four hour period . We know Eryngium will do well out there , in the cool climate , but of row we want to diversify and feel more prime to grow in the highlands . We desire to make grow the estate of the realm to its full potential ; the destination is to develop around 40 hectare of flower area . The farm is 1760 hectare total , so plenty of blank space to also set up yield plantation . ”
" Our way of working"Rob : “ We solve with about 300 multitude at Tsanga Flora and 355 at Claremont . We do n’t work with Hamuka ( like Marginpar ’s farms in Kenya and Ethiopia ) , but our note value and ism are along the same line of work . One of our value for model is about teamwork . We consider that a team exploit will always get more than the amount of money of our individual campaign . We require our worker to realise the satisfaction of work together as a group and using one another ’s relative intensity to attain a vulgar objective . We also promote train full ownership of their area of work and then being in full responsible and accountable for it . I take heed this is one of the main pillars of Hamuka . The other core value that underpins our teams is mutual respect , which we believe is the origination of any team exploit . ”
