Spud King Tony Galati's fight against farming restrictions | My Garden Path | Gardening Australia
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Tony Galati loves to watch things grow. He loves working out how long it will take and feels like he’s growing with it. Subscribe 🔔 ab.co/GA-subscribe
Tony lives near Perth, in WA, and runs a farm that produces a lot of vegetables for both the home and export market. They also have a meat facility.
But it’s potatoes that Tony is best known for.
He grows a whole range of different varieties, but his favourites are Royal Blue, with a yellow flesh: “They’re good for everything,” he says.
“I like them roasted. I’ll eat the potatoes before I eat the meat.”
He and his brothers started leasing land for growing when they were in their 20s, helped by their parents. He says there was never a plan, they just got up early, worked 16-18 hours, slept and did it all again the next day.
Retail, meat and egg production followed, then grapes and mangoes. “It just happened.” One brother pulled out but Tony and Vince are still going.
He grew up in a close family that was part of a tightly knit Italian community - “I didn’t know there was an English language before I went to school” - and helped his father on a small 3-acre plot before and after school.
His father had a potato licence - WA was the only state where potatoes were regulated. If you had an outside job, you couldn’t have a licence: Tony says people got around this by putting the licence under a partner’s name. But Tony’s father didn’t realise this, and he lost his licence.
Tony never forgot how this affected his father and as soon as he was old enough, he got his own licence to grow spuds. They bought more licences and came into conflict with the potato-regulating body over their policies to restrict the number of growers, which Tony said caused unnecessarily high prices.
His fight continued for 20 years until, in 2016, the McGowan government ended potato regulation.
Now Tony is sharing his love of growing with his own children, who are all involved with the business.
Filmed on Gnaala Karla Country in Parkfield, WA
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Good onya Tony . I did the same job until aged 45.
Im so glad you won
Hands off Tony WA Legend.
What an example of passion! He worked harder than the rest to make them irrelevant.
You can't help but respect the man
The man is an absolute legend here in WA
That was a fantastic story. From one spud farmer to another, keep up the good work! 😁👍🏻
Make this man PM his priorities all line up perfectly
Wonderful story. Reminded me we need to trust the strength of truth and not ever give in to tyrants.
Great show thanks Les from Perth 💯💯💯👍👍👍👀👀👀
Glad you enjoyed it!
love it.
Yeah but do you have the dream Tony? I'm talkin' the Dutch Cream baby? Oh yeah!!!
Great episode!
Same with beekeeping in SA. Corruption involving competing business and their relationships with government public servants.
Stalwart of this State! Re di Patati
It would of been great if Sebastian'. Stuck it out and stayed at harvey ag school. Hi to the family from Goffy ❤❤
My garden beds have become infested with onion weed. I have been trying to get rid of it for 3 years. It is so tall, almost twice the height of my actual plants. It is so depressing, as my poor plants are flowering prolifically and are putting up a good fight. I just can't keep up with the weeds. Any advice for onion weed please? I am in the Alpine region of Victoria.
Digging the bulbs is the only non chemical method. I never found solarisation to work. They are susceptible to glyphosate
politicians are completly sick
He’s a hero!