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Brenton and Anne Heazelwood in their pink buckwheat crop, Whitemore Tasmania April 2008
The unusual colour of a flowering buckwheat crop in northern Tasmania is generating a lot of interest.
The hot pink field at Whitemore near Carrick is being grown for seed for Japan.
Farmer, Brenton Heazelwood says Japanese farmers will plant paddocks of it to purely brighten up the landscape.
"They just use it purely for sowing and making the countryside look pretty," he said.
"They want it for the pink flower, all the other buckwheat of course is white flowering and it's used for noodle making but this is purely an ornamental, I suppose you would term it."
Anne Heazlewood says the Cancer Council in Tasmania has taken photos of the field and may use the image for its next campaign.
"Oh it'll be lovely, yes," she siad.
"Normally they have figures planted in a lawn of pink or something like that but i think this will be a nice different approach to their advertising campaign."
The unusual colour of a flowering buckwheat crop in northern Tasmania is generating a lot of interest.
The hot pink field at Whitemore near Carrick is being grown for seed for Japan.
Farmer, Brenton Heazelwood says Japanese farmers will plant paddocks of it to purely brighten up the landscape.
"They just use it purely for sowing and making the countryside look pretty," he said.
"They want it for the pink flower, all the other buckwheat of course is white flowering and it's used for noodle making but this is purely an ornamental, I suppose you would term it."
Anne Heazlewood says the Cancer Council in Tasmania has taken photos of the field and may use the image for its next campaign.
"Oh it'll be lovely, yes," she siad.
"Normally they have figures planted in a lawn of pink or something like that but i think this will be a nice different approach to their advertising campaign."
3 comments:
Can the buckwheat actually be used as food?
Justaconsumer
Absolutely. Buckwheat is used to make Soba noodles in Japan and Singapore. I have been in a establishment in Singapore (under the Paragon for those that know) that has pictures of Tasmanian fields of Buckwheat. It is a fantastic Tasmanian enterprise which, weather and GMO pending, will continue to be a great export earner for Tasmania.
Willard Estate.
Sounds great then. Well done. Sorry not too up on the farming products these days.
Justaconsumer
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