Working on a banana and pineapple family farm. The farm was two blocks in which I worked on the 2nd farm located in the outback, in which my duties:

•Plough/make beds to plant both banana trees and pineapple plants

•Prepare land pre cultivating by removing rocks using a front loader

•Ensure water irrigation system was set up and functioning correctly for plants and soil

•Manage all farming jobs with health and safety in mind especially as I worked on my own in some occasion

I have always worked on my family farm; we have always had cattle and sheep and would make hay in the summer. As a young boy I recall, raking hay into rows, driving tractor with trailer of square bales and then collecting round bales with a fork. We would farm Mule and North Country Cheviots sheep and over the years Aberdeen Angus, Charolais and Limousin. Like all farms, mucking out and feeding livestock, dosing and dipping sheep.

I would also follow a friend who is a vet on dairy farms and learn more on dairy and each farm processes such as parlours, grazing and block management.