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Cammarano Family Joe Cammarano and his wife Maria have lived in the area since the 1960s when Joe was working in mixed farming. In 1978 they purchased their current property and started growing their own tomatoes, onions and potatoes and increasing the existing asparagus plantings. Since then, the family has specialized in asparagus and sweet corn. Sons Tony (see pictured) and Ricky joined Joe on the family farm when they left school. Joe is first up in the morning to get to the Melbourne Wholesale Markets before 2.00am, and is busy trading as a wholesale agent. Back home, Tony looks after the export market and Ricky - sometimes with the eager helping hands of young son Jordan - oversees the growing, picking and packing of asparagus on the farm. As well as lending a helping hand on the farm, Maria cooks up feasts of asparagus for the family to enjoy after a hard day’s work. Some of her favourite ways of cooking asparagus include making a lovely soup with asparagus and eggs. She slices the asparagus finely and cooks it until tender in a tasty stock, then stirs lightly beaten eggs through the hot soup before serving. Maria also likes to steam asparagus and add it to omelettes or pickle it to enjoy when asparagus is not in season. As well as cutting asparagus from September to December, Joe and Ricky start cutting again in February and continue through to March. During the break in asparagus harvesting they start harvesting sweet corn at the end of January. They can then enjoy a break in May before the new asparagus season starts. Three generations of the family now get to enjoy the lifestyle on the land, as Ricky explains, “We love the lifestyle. With asparagus and corn you are only busy for a few months of the year. And when asparagus is in season, we get to eat it every day!” To contact the Cammarano Family please call (03) 5997 1310 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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