Heywood Orchards is a family-owned company that is three successive generations young. It started with Arthur and Lilius Heywood, who purchased the property known affectionately as “Home Block” to farm fruit and tobacco. Paul and Mike took the torch from their parents in the ’60s, and managed the transition from tobacco to kiwifruit and apples, all the while growing the operation.

Today, under the direction of Evan Heywood and Scott Heywood, the company grows apples, pears and kiwifruit across 115 hectares of orchards. They have been instrumental in putting Heywood Orchards on the global fruit stage, as founding members of Golden Bay Fruit.

Scott Heywood oversees the harvest season (with all aspects managed by Craig Dalgliesh – our Apple Manager).  He also manages the winter development program (including hail structures irrigation and staffing).water management, Health & Safety, the RSE Scheme (together with Mel), and R&M plant and machinery.

Outside of work, he is a keen outdoorsman into hunting, fishing, diving, and camping.

Evan Heywood is one of the founding directors of Golden Bay Fruit and, like Scott, has orchard management in the blood. Evan manages external relationships with key business partners (including bank, accountants, consultants and leasees), the spray and fertiliser programme, and general management of pruning, thinning and pollination.

When he’s not working, Evan enjoys mountain biking, skiing, and fishing.

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