You've heard of truffle-hunting pigs?

Pennie Scott
Updated November 30 2016 - 2:34pm, first published November 28 2016 - 2:30pm
Debbie Warne, Tim Myer and Katrina Myer with their produce. The first trees were planted in 1999 with mature trees producing around 500 pieces of fruit each year. Full production can be within five years using grafts onto rootstock. Lisa Martin from Ripe Horticulture is Barham Avocado's agronomist.
Debbie Warne, Tim Myer and Katrina Myer with their produce. The first trees were planted in 1999 with mature trees producing around 500 pieces of fruit each year. Full production can be within five years using grafts onto rootstock. Lisa Martin from Ripe Horticulture is Barham Avocado's agronomist.

When Debbie and Sandy Warne bought their land near the River Murray at Barham four decades ago, they had a few bare sandhills and irrigation paddocks. Fast forward to the present and the same sandhills are home to four varieties of avocado and now is high season for the Haas variety.

Pennie Scott

Pennie Scott

Senior Journalist

I am an independent scholar with interests and expertise in regenerative agriculture, equity and justice for farmers, functioning healthy landscapes and the culture in agri-culture. My aim is to inform holistically and honestly to ensure readers have access to what they need, now.

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