Rural Connection: Growing Up As A Sugar Cane Farmer

Whether you’ve poured yourself a bowl of cereal, a hot cup of coffee or grabbed a piece of vegemite toast this morning, sugar has helped bring that to life. Sugar cane farming might sound like living in the world of Willy Wonka, but it’s a little bit more complicated than that.

2SER producer Gabi Warner chats to Breakfast Host and Rural Connection co-founder Willy Russo, about what her childhood as a cane sugar farmer looked like. 

Tune in every Tuesday morning at 7:45 for Rural Connection to get your fix of stories from beyond the city limits, brought to you by two country girls, Willy Russo and Gabi Warner.