Fruits of our Labor

The Goulburn Valley fruit industry versus robots

The Goulburn Valley in northern Victoria, Australia, is a premium agriculture area, with extensive irrigation channels, orchards, fruit canning factories, and water storage, combined with a large and diverse group of immigrants. Many immigrants became rich with a combination of hard work and the growing demand for fresh and canned fruit. The fruit industries around the world, like those in the Goulburn Valley and California, have supplied millions of people with fruit and created many jobs and industries. We all need food to survive. Orchards help to do that. This book is a celebration and a thank you to fruit growers everywhere who put fruit salad on the table and in our stomachs every day. The world is becoming more ‘technologically advanced’. There are already signs of our submission to higher beings—robots. Robots and AI are the same thing. Life, as we know it, will be a memory in another 10 years. The companies that control the robots will control the world. Before there were no options, humans had to do it. Now there are options; it will be a case of submission to the robots or being superseded. At the moment, it seems like big tech companies like Meta and Google have all the power, and they will only grow stronger if they develop artificial intelligence. While new companies are forging ahead with their robots, they may overtake big tech. It is for a good reason that Elon Musk has suggested a moratorium on robots for a year or so. Ok, back to the polar opposite of robots and AI, growing food, which is working with nature, not overpowering it. If you have children addicted to their computers, now is a good time for them to become fruit growers. Why do you ask? Because within so many decades, nature, rivers, oceans, trees, and animals will become a fad, a memorical one, when we deeply regret our stupidity and that of our parents. Maybe religion is the only answer because of its close ties to nature and creation. Celebrating life, as it was founded and not staring into the eyes of a soulless machine—with a ray gun.

Here is a list of the many people, companies, and innovations that helped the Goulburn Valley fruit industry become what it is today.

The Bangerang people, squatters, selectors, the Turnbull Brothers, The Greenwoods, the Youngs, the McNabs, the Pickworths, Ardmona Fruit Products, Kyabram Preserving Company – Henry Jones IXL, Rosella – Unilever, Tatura Cannery, Echuca Waranga Waterworks Trust, Goulburn Weir, Waranga Basin, Lake Eildon, stone fruit, new varieties, grapes, tomatoes, the pioneering women, Bertha smith, Loudie

This book is for sale on Amazon = History of the Goulburn Valley Fruit Industry