When the Duke and Duchess of York visited Tasmania in 1927 they were greeted in Hobart by a huge street arch made from apples that proudly read: "Welcome to Apple Land".
She will look into areas like Lilydale, in the state's north-east, that once had hundreds of hectares of apples, but today has noneCaptain William Bligh planted Tasmania's first apple trees in 1788 on Bruny Island at Adventure Bay.Captain William Bligh planted the first apple trees in Tasmania in the late 1700s.
Third-generation orchardist Andrew Griggs says the heyday for apples was from the 1940s to the 1960s, before England joined the European Union in the 1970s. The government implemented a tree-pull scheme in the 1970s to get families out of the industry, and apple production in the state halved in just three years after peaking in the previous decade at seven million cases of export apples.Mr Griggs said his family's orchard at Lucaston in the Huon Valley shifted its focus from Europe to South-East Asia and the domestic market.
"Last year was an absolute disaster; we had a big crop and low sales and a huge amount of apples left over at the end of the season," Mr Griggs said.
Jeezuz🙄
How about, “The Vagina Isle” or “Beautiful Beef Curtains”?
Political parasites paid farmers to bull doze their orchards the ignorant arrogant wannabes,Nichol's Rivulet had scores of orchards once,now hardly any.
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Now we're down to the important shit !
'Core business'
. And should Australia be called the lucky country? Or egalitarian? Or the land of the fair go? . .
It’s should be called Wombatland.
Yes, what a stupid question from the ABC! 🤬
The genocide isle.
Struggling to recall any orchards in New York
It’s rubbish. We don’t even have a Genius Bar.
Aunty?
Map of Tassie
Yes. It resembles one
It's no longer a news business, does ABC deserve to have a news department?