Gold Coast News
Year 12 graduates ditch schoolies to save watermelon farmer’s crop
They’re on the water (melons): Year 12 graduates who ditched boozy Schoolies celebrations to help a struggling watermelon farmer harvest his crop reveal what life was like on the land
- Number of recent Year 12 graduates answered a Chinchilla farmer’s call for help
- The five friends snubbed traditional schoolies celebrations to work on the farm
- Farmer Murray Sturgess needed pickers to get watermelon crop to market
- Grower was without backpackers to help because of Covid-19 border closures
