MY WORLD ~ Nunkarrie Cherry Farm

This afternoon my camera and I went to Nunkarrie Cherry Farm

outside of Mt.Pleasant South Australia. Normally at this time of

the year business is booming. This year we have had huge rains

just as the first cherries were ready to pick. Cherries are two weeks

late this year due to unseasonably low temperatures throughout

our spring as well as heavy rains. So much for global warming.

Some of the cherries almost ready for picking. Sam, the best

farmer I know and not just for cherries, has the whole orchard

netted and grows exhibition standard, perfumed roses by the

hundred in the netted eves of the orchard.

Normally these cherries would be ripe for the Christmas market.

People expect cherries for Christmas and sales thereafter tend

to drop off. The loss this year will be doubled with a reduced crop

and no market when it finally is ripe.

In a normal year I have seen the trees with props under the

branches to hold the weight with all the branches ringed with

fruit and hardly a leaf showing.

Ever the indomitable, smiling Sam, doing the work of six men

and making a go of whatever he does. You may remember my

trip to the Flinders Ranges where Sam and Janet flew up to

Hawker with their three dogs to make up beds for the four of

us as well as cooking us dinner.

Cherry preserves and other produce set out like a feast with

the wafting scent of roses pervading all.

Janet the gentle, holding the fort in the cherry shed, painter

and friend extrordinaire, carries everything off with a smile.

Even outside the cherry orchard there are roses as there are

in many parts of the farm.

I hope you can hear me munching cherries as I type he, he. he . . .

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