What is your favorite hobby or pastime?
In retirement, I have gone back to what I left. I gave up my farming occupation which could have led to my inheriting the farm in time back in the 1960s, to go into teachers college and graduate into a career of teaching and leadership that I found fulfilling and rewarding.
In retirement, I have gone back to farming – at this time as an “ urban farmer“. It’s not wheat and sheep and cattle as it was on our rural farm in Western Australia. Rather, I have got into growing pawpaws from seed, giving away many plants and growing others on our block.
Over time I have given away hundreds of plants. I’ve also given away hundreds of homegrown fruit.
The paradox is that I like growing pawpaws and have made a reasonable success of it. But I don’t like pawpaws as a fruit to eat.
In Darwin where I live, pawpaws for sale in shops come in at around $5.90 a kilo. So I have given away hundreds of dollars worth of fruit and I’m happy to do so.
I like being an urban farmer.
EDUCATION, A LIFE FORCE 
Excellent (by the way paw paws are my least favourite fruit) love mangoes though. Great pastime, I’ve got a 4 metre avocado tree grown from seed, and several lemon tree seedlings going strong from seed. Keep up the great work. Darwin is a beautiful place.
Well done with your gardening prowess and thank you for your comment.
Well…farming is the real reason we not starving and it employs more than anything in SOUTH AFRICA
In Australia, farm labour in such short supply, that fruit pickers and others have to be brought in on visas to do the work.
Well…we Africans are blessed with land to plant so maybe we will export fruit to Australia