Gardener

Come here. Yep. This is Cooper. She loves the camera too.
Hi, my name is France and I'm a gardener.
The best thing about my office is that it's outside,
because I can't be indoors too long. It gets boring. This is the work van.
What you'll find in the work van is tool bags, all the hand tools.
This is our hori hori. The wonder weeder is what they call it
It's how to get all those niggly weeds out.
All the fertilizers and sprays that you need to go throughout your day.
And other than that, just lots of bags of rubbish.
Lots of bags of rubbish for gardeners. So as you can see the retaining wall is just holding
back the bank here. We're just gonna fill this up preferably with just mulch,
cover the ground and be able to walk back over here really.
Just so it makes our job a little bit easier.
So this is our mulcher that we use. So we just use these dead punga leaves just
to, uh, make the most of our mulch; from branches as well.
Then spread them across mostly to keep the weeds out. I was actually
job hunting after working in civil construction and just felt like I needed
something else. When I started,
it was offered to me to do the apprenticeship as well. And I said, why not?
I might as well learn something and get something towards my name.
Great thing about having an apprenticeship is you get to earn what you learn.
It's real muddy down here with just leaf debris and weeds.
What we're gonna do is we're just gonna clear it out, chuck some weed mat down,
put some boulders on,
and allow the water to run down smoothly and not get stuck along the way.
It's fun, real different.
Some days there's days where it's the normal standard stuff and the other days
it is real different, which makes it exciting I guess.
The most rewarding thing is stepping back after a job's been done and just
seeing how much you've managed to achieve.