Richard Bowsher - A Rogue & A Gentleman - Tech Pioneer turns Farmer

In the late 1990s Richard Bowsher co-founded the conference
company, StreamMedia.com which pioneered the nascent space
devoted to the delivery of audio and video over this new thing
called the Internet. He sold that thriving company to NYSE
publisher Penton Media. In 2007, Richard founded Klipopmekaar and
started farming rooibos tea high in the Northern Cederberg
mountains of his native South Africa. The only things standing on
the farmland when Richard began were an old bus and a ram-shackle
camp site. Today, along with being a thriving, productive and
happy place, Klipopmekaar is one of the largest organic rooibos
farms in the world. In addition to supplying premium tea brands
direct, Richard Co-founded BOS Ice Tea in 2009 which is now the
world’s leading Rooibos ice tea brand with regional head offices
worldwide. Between Klipopmekaar, BOS Ice Tea, and their
suppliers, hundreds of jobs have been created in the South
African economy and beyond. BOS has significantly increased the
world-wide awareness of rooibos tea, its proudly South African
roots, its premium qualities, and its spirited African identity.
Richard is an avid surfer,  loving  a father, husband ,
farmer, artist and dear friend of Swan Dive host, Stuart
Sheldon. 


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