Interview with Giancarlo Marchioro - highlights

Excerpt of interview with Giancarlo (Johnny) Marchioro about market gardening. 
Johnny talks about the family market gardens at Findon and Lockleys, working the glasshouses, what was grown on the properties, and getting water from the River Torrens. He also talks about going to sell produce at the East End Market, including getting up at 3am, and the changes in delivery practices to shopkeepers.

Part of the Italian Market Gardeners Oral History Project.

Johnny Marchioro  was born in Adelaide on 17 August 1940. His father had arrived in Australia in 1927, his mother married his father by proxy and joined him in Adelaide. The family worked a market garden in Frogmore Road at Findon and then moved to White Avenue Lockleys. Later Johnny started a market garden at Bolivar.

Photograph: Johnny Marchioro working lettuces at the Marchioro market garden at White Avenue, Lockleys, c1965. SLSA: B 70982/17

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