How to Grow a TON of Sugarcane & Why It's GOOD For You

[Mandy Onderwater]

Have you grown sugarcane, or even tried it before? What were your experiences?



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[Mandy Onderwater]

When I came to Australia I was fairly unfamiliar with sugarcane, other than knowing it existed. When my partner picked up a piece of sugarcane from a nearby railline and handed it to me, telling me to chew on it I laughed. I thought he was messing with the newcomer

 

[Grandmother Goose]

Never mind Mandy, I probably would have thought the same if someone had done that to me. Over 30 million tons of sugarcane are grown in Australia every year. I've existed here for the past 53 years, and in all that time have never once tasted sugarcane. In fact, I've never even seen it other than seeing huge fields of it in the distance whilst I was passing by on a train. It's almost weird the food things that are grown/produced/made in Australia that most of us have never even come across least of all tasted. I'm sure plenty of people from other countries can say much the same about foods where they live too.

 

[Mandy Onderwater]

Very true. I must say it was quite tasty. Not as sweet as I expected, though. I think it's just how "weird" it is to me to chew on a "stick", and spit the bits out.
In saying that, I definitely recommend trying it. And I feel like it'd be a lovely camping snack actually

And not just foods. I come from the Netherlands. People would fly from all over the world to "experience" our tulip fields. I'd ride past them on my bicycle every year, but I must say I've never actually walked through one. It just... feels too "tourist-ey", haha.
And my partner is amused every time I look and point at a mountain, amazed every day yet again. The Netherlands is flat and we don't have ANY mountains. To me they're a marvel to behold. Yet when he took me to a nearby "city" thinking I would be amazed I chuckled. It would've classified it more like a busy town or maybe a small city. Though the fact there was a mountain in the middle with a lovely view.

 

[Grandmother Goose]

Ah, touristy, yes. I'm sure we've all taken for granted something in the place we live to then one day move away from it and realise we never went somewhere that everyone else that goes to that location always visits. Lived in Sydney for half my life, never went to Bondi beach, Centrepoint tower, nor Taronga Zoo, until I wasn't living in Sydney anymore and took my kids there for a holiday. Anything natural and untouched by humans tends to win my attention and awe. Anything made or manipulated by mankind is highly likely to get a shrug of "yeah, so?" out of me.