Fruit Picking and Vegetables picking is not the most glamorous job and usually its seasonal work, but it can still earn the Backpacker $125 plus a day for those fun adventures you came to Australia to experience. There is also the added reward of picking fruit for 3 months and getting a 12 month extension of time on your working holiday visa.
From grape harvesting in Berri, to mango picking in Darwin, each year thousands of people find work helping to bring in the fruit and vegetable harvests. When Backpacking around Australia, no trip is complete without a stint of picking fruit and moving around the country according to where the harvests are.
Picking vegetables and fruit is a good way to lose weight and tone up, fruit and vegetable picking is physically demanding so being fit and healthy will help you work more effectively.
What you need:
* A good average level of fitness
* A Hat
* Old clothes - long pants and long sleeve shirts
* Long socks to cover your arms - the plants are scratchy
* A water bottle to hold at least 1.5 ltrs
* Sunscreen
* 2 pair of working shoes (steel capped are good)
* A good attitude to hard work will make your job easy
Some employers will provide meals & accommodation too. Make sure you establish all conditions before you start work. Also remember that picking is reliant on the weather, so this might affect your wages for a short time.
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