Hort Heroes – Onion growers

Talking to onion growers opens up ideas about farming for lifestyle

Jake and Hope Shadbolt are third generation onion farmers from Victoria. Their farm supplies hundreds of thousands of Australian households a week with onions - this is their story.

Credits
With thanks to Scotties Point Farms
Produced by Edible Adventures Productions
Executive Producer: Alice Zaslavsky
Director & Cinematography: We Are Yarn
Editor: Maria Papoutsis
Sound: Sam Lowe
Colour: Kali Bateman
Music: Interview #2 - Davey Lane, James Fleming, Paul Luczak
Curriculum Specialist: Beverley Laing
Funding: Hort Innovation

Lesson Plans

For Teachers

Free Australian Curriculum-aligned lesson plans, springboards and activities for Yr 3-6.

Hort Heroes – Onion growers

Yr Level

Learning Area

Curriculum Code
Hort Heroes – Onion Growers
9
Work Studies, Agricultural Technology, Agriculture Food Studies
ACWSCL006 ACWSCL010 ACWSCL011 ACWSCL008
Why is that Farm Here?
4 5 6
Humanities and Social Sciences
ACHASSI079 ACHASSI073 ACHASSI074 ACHASSK113 ACHASSI095 ACHASSI123 ACHASSI124
Hort Heroes – Onion growers
Hort Heroes – Onion Growers
Yr Level
9
Learning Area
Work Studies, Agricultural Technology, Agriculture Food Studies
Curriculum Code
ACWSCL006 ACWSCL010 ACWSCL011 ACWSCL008
Why is that Farm Here?
Yr Level
4 5 6
Learning Area
Humanities and Social Sciences
Curriculum Code
ACHASSI079 ACHASSI073 ACHASSI074 ACHASSK113 ACHASSI095 ACHASSI123 ACHASSI124