{"id":572,"date":"2020-09-15T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T10:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/?p=572"},"modified":"2020-10-15T04:50:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T02:50:48","slug":"schoemans-of-middelwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/articles\/schoemans-of-middelwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoemans of Middelwater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On our way to the Schoeman\u2019s farmhouse on Middelwater, a baboon runs over the gravel road with a beautiful green pumpkin under one arm. He sneakily looks at us as if he knows that he got away with something. It is common knowledge that these human-like beasts are a major problem for farmers, but it does not take away the charm of the moment. On the foot of the hill lies a charming old farmhouse. This is probably the way children would picture a farmhouse. Cattle, chickens, dogs, geese, wild ducks, monkeys, baboons and fish all sharing one yard. A mythical farmhouse hugged by a hill, flowers, trees and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking the expression \u201cOld School\u201d to a whole new level, we learned that the original family farm \u201cVissershoek\u201d was the home to the second local farm school after World War II and the third school was built on the farm Sandspruit. The original family farm \u201cVissershoek\u201d belonged to the three Schoeman brothers, Lood the first, Hendrik and Japie Schoeman. They bought the farm from the Visser family that named the farm \u201cVissershoek\u201d. The second school was inside the \u201cVissershoek\u201d farmhouse of Lood Schoeman the first. After space became a problem, the brothers built another one-room building to accommodate the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n