Irrigation is a central element of the Riverina's agricultural output. From rice, cotton, cereals, fruit and vegetable crops to grapes, dairy, sheep, hay and pastures for grazing, this region is renowned for its abundance and diversity of produce.
Marc and Stacey Brooke are one such couple who have wholeheartedly embraced the area's inherent spirit of diversity, with the transformation of their small cropping farm nestled on the outskirts of Wakool into the blossoming Australian natives enterprise, Tulla Natives.
From propagating, planting, cutting and packing, an extraordinary level of activity happens at the couple's Tullakool Road property.No day looks the same. One day, the pair can be found packing out pallets of their glorious home-grown native floriculture for transporting to Sydney's flower wholesale market; while the next they are heading offsite to plant tens of thousands of seedlings into the ground as part of their contract tree planting service.
Over in their native plant nursery, which grows a large variety of species ranging from Acacia and Eucalyptus to Bottle-trees, Kurrajong, Grevillea and Melaleuca, there are seeds to sow, cuttings to trim and plant, tray stock to thin and grade and orders to prepare.
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