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The Lunch Basket

On October 15, 2020   /   History   /   4 Comments
Tags: Bean picking, Chocolate Simplicity Cake., Harvesting, lunchtime, Rural life, Tasmania, Ulverstone
The Lunch Basket

Anyone growing up in rural Tasmania in the old days would be aware of the lunch basket, often taken out to the paddock by small children. And if a piece of cake or a biscuit disappeared on the way….well who could blame them? My farmer’s wife mother

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‘BEAN’ THERE; DONE THAT!

On April 30, 2015   /   History   /   13 Comments
Tags: Bean crops, Bean picking, Farm life, Fat Hen, Tasmanian agriculture, Tasmanian bushfires 1967, Ulverstone
'BEAN' THERE; DONE THAT!

My father planted  his first commercial crop of beans  on our farm near Ulverstone on the north-west coast of Tasmania, in 1958.  Initially we grew  just a couple of acres,  without the benefit of irrigation.  We picked the crop four or five times over, struggling to fill 

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