To maximise catchment from the contour drain it is cleared (‘honed’) using the brush-cutter (trimmer line). Clear, clean country lifestyle at north Brisbane Australia among open eucalypt. Rural life is systemic in this family and through meagre time after family and community service they : small crop; landscape; homestead garden; green; … . Their heritage and inspiration is Australian pioneers: agrarian. Outdoor industrious tasks (often by hand for frugality and exercise ): tilling the soil , managing the grass and land (‘green’); water management (dam building; irrigation piping/plumbing) ; bee keeping; fowl raising; productive orchards (mango , citrus) and small crops; large home vegetable patch ; dams; slashing with 1950s Fiat tractor; hand mulching tonnes of trees ; landscaped terracing tonnes of earth; establishing and maintaining hundreds of metres of hedges; rose gardens; fence; … .
