When the grapes are ready, our normal workforce has to be increased quickly with people who want to work hard. Oordman Dirks lives in the nearby town of Wolseley, and one of his jobs is to line up sufficient pickers and bring them by truck to the vineyard early in the morning, and return them at the end of the day. However, starting in 2008, our need for harvest labor decreased markedly with our acquisition of a harvesting machine. It was timely as fewer and fewer of the local people are interested in picking grapes anymore.