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Market Gardening

Lynda dons a pair of gumboots and chases a tractor to learn more from some of the few surviving Chinese family growers still around and still growing strong.

Gordon and Denise Sue

View from Nigel Sue's tractor

The mud!

Back breaking, harvesting cabbages

Fresh produce!

Back breaking work

Famous for soft leafy greens

Josh demonstrates brockerly harvesting

Josh stacks crates of cabbages

Leeks are the hardest veges to harvest

Lynda getting into the spirit of things!

Lynda learning to drive

Market gardening Chinese style

Planting 30,000 in a day!

Nigel clearing the lettuce planting machine

Red onions ready to harvest

The grading shed

Washing down lettuces

Loading produce for same day transport

Truckie Alan Stevens

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