Picking in dark beats Katherine heat

AW
Updated November 23 2015 - 3:00pm, first published December 19 2014 - 1:57pm
Before the sun rises, Pinata Farms workers are busy harvesting Honey Gold mangoes in Katherine, Northern Territory, in order to beat the savage heat.
Before the sun rises, Pinata Farms workers are busy harvesting Honey Gold mangoes in Katherine, Northern Territory, in order to beat the savage heat.

IN the pitch black of a Katherine mango orchard, the mobile picking units are lit up like a small oil rig in a sea of dark.

AW

Editor of Good Fruit and Vegetables.

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