Showing posts with label Potatoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Potatoes. Show all posts
Thursday, March 3, 2022

Loading potatoes at Koo Wee Rup Railway Station

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These are photos from the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society loading potatoes at the Koo Wee Rup Railway station. I believe they are from ...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Potatoes for health and beauty

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I grew up on a potato farm at Cora Lynn, so I naturally have a fondness for the vegetable. Potatoes are grown worldwide, they are nutritious...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Koo-Wee-Rup Potato Festival

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The first Koo-Wee-Rup Potato Festival took place on February 17, 1973. Over 4,000 people attended the event. It started with a Grand Parade ...
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

100 years ago this week - Potatoes

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100 years ago this week, The Australasian , in the Country Gleanings column reported on the good potato season on the Swamp. The Aust...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

100 years ago this week - Potatoes and Asparagus

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Here's the Crop report from 100 years ago.  Bunyip Free Press October 1, 1914 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12962960...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Garfield Railway Station

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I have written before about how the construction of the Sale Railway line was the seminal event in the establishment of the town of Garfiel...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show 1960

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This is what the Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show used to be like.  My dad, Frank Rouse and my Uncle James Rouse (J. & F. Rouse Potato...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

100 years ago this week - Koo-Wee-Rup rains and a Health report

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From the South Bourke and Mornington Journal of November 14, 1912.  Available on Trove  http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper This is in...