Harvest

Harvest

The Kumara (sweet potato) is one

the most nutritious vegetable you can eat has lots of health benefits. So it was our job to make sure they hit those supermarkets! Between 7-11 workers on each harvester, 1 drives the tractor, 1 is the bin man, 1 is a walker, and the others… they do the most important job, work on the conveyor belt. The tractor digs the harvester through a row of kumara which come up on to the belt. Your task? To fight through the soil and pick up as many Kumara as possible (whilst removing the soil and roots) and putting them on to the smaller belt above, this belt moves towards the crate (the bin) where the bin man works, he (or she) make sure there are no damaged or half eaten Kumara going in to the crate, when full, drops the crate and gets a new one, simple! But what happens to the Kumara we don’t pick up off the belt? It falls off the end and lands back on the ground! That’s when the walker comes into action. Sound Easy? It’s harder than it looks! If the belt is going too fast, the Kumara fall off the end and the walker has a hard job getting them all, especially in the hot sun… or rain…or mud! Some of us even pick Kumara in our dreams! But, we get to listen to the radio all day, which can sometimes be the debate, or the laugh of the day. Our choices? Hauraki FM – the rock! (a radio station that purely plays rock music!) or More FM – repetitive pop music.

Luckily most of us like Hauraki !!