Horticulture
Jason Kirley, Competitive Woodcutter
Sydney Royal Easter Show 2026 – Charles Moses Stadium “My family was in the timber industry, mainly tree felling and logging. I was about 2 when I started with a wooden axe. As I grew older I moved up to a tomahawk then a real axe; my first competition was when I was 12. I think you just love it. It’s a very hard sport to train for and to clean up after. Axes are a lot of work; I
Josh Lane, Aussie Home Garden
Sydney Royal Easter Show 2026 – Charles Moses Stadium “We live in the south-east suburbs of Melbourne where I run a landscaping business, but I was a chef by trade. I always enjoyed cooking growing up, and home economics at school, so I took my passion into cooking. I did my apprenticeship at a restaurant called Clover Cottage in the south-east suburbs of Melbourne, then ventured into a couple of pubs and then eventually into a restaurant of my own
Tim Carroll, Andreasens Green
“We’ve been around for more than 40 years in the industry, growing trees and plants for commercial landscapes and public spaces. Our state-of-the-art propagation nursery at Lansvale grows cuttings and seedlings for a majority of the plants required for our projects. We are a large-scale supplier, growing ground covers, shrubs and advanced trees, mostly for the commercial landscape sector. Our core business is supplying to large landscape projects, public domain, councils, infrastructure, large residential developments…that sort of thing. Here at
Bonnie and Abby, Yanco Agricultural High School
Bonnie and Abby, students of Yanco Agricultural High School, attended the 2026 Royal Easter Show in Sydney with a selection of cattle.“We breed the steers and then take them to the Show for about 10 days where people can have a look at them, then they go into their separate classes,” Bonnie explains. “The steers are judged in lightweight, heavyweight, and medium weight just to pick out the best of the lot,” Abby adds. “We both come from agricultural backgrounds
Sophia Crose, St. John’s Agricultural College Dubbo
“Today we’re just seeing what we do with some cows at cattle shows; what happens and how we keep them nice and clean. We’ve got some limousine cows; black ones but you can also get apricots. We also have square-metres and square-metre crosses, and we also have shorthorns, two big Herefords, and one tiny, square-metre cross limo. We have a farm at home and a few other properties around Dubbo. We do some crop and live off cattle there, so
Kane Stannard
From the rugby league field to golf courses here and abroad, Kane Stannard’s life and work has revolved around turf. Cafe Reporter chatted with the course superintendent at Bexley Golf Course about greenkeeping, footy and food. “My greenkeeping career pretty much started off in high school. I was in Year 12 and my brother was in year 10, and he left to become an apprentice greenkeeper at a golf club at Tweed Coolangatta Golf Club up on Tweed Heads. I