Collection 04: Almond industry in Balranald and Griffith, and floods in northern New South Wales, 22 March-4 April 2022, photographs by Darren Clark

sub-fonds

22 March-4 April 2022

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9664936

23 photographs - digital, camera raw, colour

Cadell Almonds grows three varieties of almonds on 1,694 hectares at Balranald, New South Wales. During harvest time, which lasts three months, Cadell employs around 75 seasonal workers.

Almondco is a large processing plant in Griffith, which removes the shells from the almonds, sorts and quality checks them, bags them and then sends them on to other factories for further processing.

Growtek nursery in the Riverina grows new almond trees for the industry.

From March–early April 2022, widespread heavy rainfall in the already saturated Northern Rivers and Mid North Coast regions of New South Wales prompted several evacuation orders, as towns contended with flash flooding and rising rivers for the second time in a month. Byron Bay's central business district experienced the worst flash flooding locals had seen, and Coraki and South Lismore flooded for the second time in one month.

Reference: Library Acquisition file

Digital photographs documenting the almond industry in south-western NSW including the Cadell almond orchard in Balranald, Almondco processing plant in Griffith, and Growtek almond growing in the Riverina, as well as photographs documenting floods at Byron Bay, Coraki and South Lismore in Northern New South Wales.

Item 01: Almond stockpiles, Cadell Orchards, Balranald, New South Wales, 22 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 02: Palaki Vea from Tonga cleaning up almonds that have spilled from a truck, Cadell Orchards, Balranald, New South Wales, 22 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 03: Shaking machine, Cadell Orchards, Balranald, New South Wales, 30 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 04: Ulvi from Indonesia drives a Flory sweeper, Cadell Orchards, Balranald, New South Wales, 22 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 05: Sin Ying Ling and Long Zheng from Malaysia shelling almonds, Cadell Orchards, Balranald, New South Wales, 30 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 06: Anne-Maree Wardk inspecting almonds, Cadell Orchards, Balranald, New South Wales, 30 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 07: Maata Ng Lui places a sample of almonds into a grinding machine, Cadell Orchards, Balranald, New South Wales, 30 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 08: Fertiliser is added to vats of warm water, Cadell Orchards, Balranald, New South Wales, 24 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 09: Almond kernels move from the sorting machine into plastic-lined bins, Almondco, Griffith, New South Wales, 29 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 10: Final sorting of almonds, Almondco, Griffith, New South Wales, 4 April 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 11: A road train is loaded with discarded almond shells and hulls to be used for stock feed, Almondco, Griffith, New South Wales, 29 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 12: Bagging almonds, Almondco, Griffith, New South Wales, 29 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 13: Lachie McKenzie watches a team of Malaysian workers grafting rootstock for Growtek Almonds at his nursery in Koraleigh, New South Wales, 28 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 14: Two Malaysian nursery workers grafting rootstock for Growtek Almonds, Koraleigh, New South Wales, 28 March 2022
Item 15: Cleaning up after the flood, Byron Bay, New South Wales, 31 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 16: Rachael Warburton, owner of Dr Moose T-shirt shop on Jonson Street, after the flood, Byron Bay, New South Wales, 31 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 17: Jen Lunan wading across floodwater, Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay, New South Wales, 31 March 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 18: A house in floodwater, Coraki, New South Wales, 4 April 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 19: A car and rubbish in toxic floodwater, Coraki, New South Wales, 2 April 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 20: Piles of rubbish and floodwater, Coraki, New South Wales, 4 April 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 21: Piles of rubbish after the floods, South Lismore, New South Wales, 2 April 2002 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 22: A brick building damaged by floodwater, South Lismore, New South Wales, 2 April 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark
Item 23: Scott Johnson and Julie sorting through the remains of Scott's family heirlooms after the floods, South Lismore, New South Wales, 2 April 2022 / photograph by Darren Clark

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Darren Clark
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Darren Clark

Titled from information supplied by the photographer