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Posts Tagged Farming

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AN ETERNAL DILEMMA FOR FARMERS.

On December 16, 2019   /   History   /   2 Comments
Tags: Dairy farming, Depopulation, Drought, Eaton Hastings, Farming, Highland Clearances., Land Clearing, Tasmania
AN ETERNAL DILEMMA FOR FARMERS.

I have been watching in dismay as our Australian farmers continue to battle fire and drought. One of the most heartbreaking things is seeing hard working people being forced from the land due to crop failure and the high price of hay. Of course those on vast

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THE GRAVEL PIT PLAYGROUND

On December 1, 2018   /   Blog   /   5 Comments
Tags: Australian native heath, Childhood, Epacris impressa, Farming, gravel, Gravel pits, Ivor Harris, Mr Jack Smith, nostalgia, Platypus, Tadpoles, Tasmania, Ulverstone
THE GRAVEL PIT PLAYGROUND

There was a large gravel pit on the dairy farm I grew up on outside Ulverstone, in north west Tasmania.  I don’t think the income from it was huge, but it  must have been a big help to my parents when they bought the property in 1952.

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