Banana Farming: Week One

Spring Creek Produce

It’s official, we’ve survived our first week as banana farmers! My knees ache, my fingernails are filthy, and my favourite hoody has now become my ‘work hoody’, but apart from that, it’s been a pretty easy-going week. There are ten of us backpackers here in total living in our own block on the farm, who have made getting settled into this totally new environment really easy. As expected, the work is physical, repetitive and pretty dull - but when you’re all doing it together and suffering the same aches and pains, it doesn’t seem half as bad! The days alone drag, especially when you’re doing the 8-5 shift in the farm shop - yet at the same time this first week has absolutely flown by - one down, thirteen to go! 

Spare time wise there isn’t a whole lot to do here, which at first was a pretty daunting realisation. However, we do have our own car to use whenever we like, and have spent our last few days off down at the local creeks and lakes - cliff-jumping, kangaroo spotting, firewood collecting etc… It’s a pretty simple existence, almost taking us back in time by making us actually go outside to find things to entertain ourselves with. We shop together, we eat together, and at weekends the beer-pong comes out and we all sit around the campfire listening to music and toasting to another week gone. 

For a more visual explanation of what we do, click here!