Errol and Irma Seymour, the business founders and owners, are passionate about the quality and health benefits of their products, as well as caring for their farm environment.

Errol had a long career in senior management with a large oil and gas company before "retiring" to become Managing Director of Drover's Rest. His three engineering degrees, including a PhD from Harvard University, seem to reflect interests far removed from organic farming! Perhaps this is explained by the fact that Errol spent his early childhood years on his parents dairy farm in the South West of Western Australia before moving to Perth.

Errol and Irma spend a good proportion of their valuable time in increasing the biodiversity on their property with landscaping and forest regeneration. This was recognised by the award of a National Landcare Award from Landcare Australia to Drover's Rest in 2005. In 2008, Errol and Irma received the Merit Award in the farmer category in the National EMS Association Awards for their environmental management system. They are particularly fond of their happy resident kangaroo population plus prolific and tuneful bird life.

Errol and Irma employ local people, many of them young, doing their first job. This support for regional employment in an inland farming region where employment is traditionally low, was recognised as a significant factor in the award of a Federal Government Regional Partnership grant to assist with finance for the factory.