Working Wednesdays: Broccoli Harvesting in Moriarty, Australia
If you’re reading this and you’ve heard of Moriarty, it’s probably because you’ve been there. If you haven’t been there, I can’t think of any reason why you’d have…
How To Backpack🎒Your Way To Antarctica🇦🇶!
Backpacking your way to Antarctica?? Are you serious? Yes! Antarctica is without doubt the most amazing place I have travelled to, to date. It really is like another world and anyone who has been there…
The Day I…Did A Shit💩In A Broccoli🥦Field!!
With travelling comes strange and amusing stories. This one, though slightly disgusting just highlights the amusement you can look back on, and in this case laugh at myself a couple of years down the line.…
Working On The World’s First Broccoli Harvester…
It was a pleasure to have worked on the world’s first broccoli harvester – we were the first ever team to use it. There are two broccoli harvesters in existence, the brainchild of Joe Cook,…
Broccoli Harvest: Walabadah
To be honest I only remember hearing the name “Walabadah” and thought it was some kind of joke. I don’t reckon I’ve even spelt it right there you know. But the fact is there is…
Broccoli Harvest: Formosa Farm
Next up was Formosa Farm in Cressy. Located just off the main road from Cressy to Poatina, this farm meant a drive along a very narrow mud path and then down a steep hill, which…
Working Wednesdays: Broccoli Harvest at Lakehouse Farm Near Cressy, Tasmania
A rough map as to where Lakehouse Farm is…it is actually quite a historic place to have worked in Tasmanian history, although when you’re spending your days slogging away cutting broccoli, the glamour of such…
Working Wednesdays: Processed Broccoli Harvesting at Woodside Farm, Poatina, Tasmania
Once I moved to Poatina, Woodside was the first broccoli farm I worked on in this area. That’s the entrance to Woodside farm, with my colleague Jenny sitting on the back of my car having…
Broccoli Fields Forever
Ask me 12 years ago if I thought I’d be working as a broccoli harvester when I’m 30, and I would simply have laughed at you! But there I was, aged 30, working on farms…
Broccoli Harvest: East Sassafras
Depending on your knowledge in life, Sassafras is either a type of tree, a type of tea, a type of soap or a village in Northern Tasmania. So where does that leave East Sassafras? And…