By Jena Carr
Bundoora Park Farm had a morning filled with fun and hijinks when Channel 7’s Sunrise team payed a visit.
Sunrise visited the farm at 1069 Plenty Road on Wednesday, August 30, from 6am to 9am to do its half-hourly weather cross.
Bundoora Park Farm coordinator Tim Cadusch said the visit from the Sunrise team and weatherman Sam Mac was a “very positive and fun” experience that everyone at the farm “loved”.
“It highlighted the exciting activities that we have on offer here,” he said.
“We talked about how farms are essential to the food we get from supermarkets and showed kids turning cream into butter and grinding wheat into flour.
“We also had an activity picking up manure with kids to show the importance of cleaning paddocks, composting, putting manure in compost bays, and breaking it down to fertilise and enrich the soil.”
Mr Cadusch said the farm wanted to highlight its sustainability and compositing efforts during the Sunrise segment and its volunteers’ hard work and dedication.
He also said Sunrise made the day “fun and enjoyable” and that Sam Mac had got up to a “little bit of mischief”.
“We had a bit of fun on national television with Sam… as he managed to find one of our long-haired guinea pigs that we call Donald Trump,” Mr Cadusch said.
“He managed to put Donald Trump on the top of his head to do a bit of a caricature of Donald Trump, which was quite funny.
“We also had a poo champ medal for one of the kids who won the poo pickup, so that was quite good, and Sam got into that as well. He’s certainly a character.”
