Life on the orchard and my big break in NZ
April 28th 2006 We moved down to the Orchard on the 26th of February and started picking on the 27th, the first day of the picking season.
The Orchard we were working at was Mr Apple Ongaonga. The Orchard is actually 3km by road from the "village" of Ongaonga (which is named after a large very poisonous stinging nettle). Ongaonga is a very old historical village in NZ terms and it has a village museum, depar
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