Luke Tamblyn

• Supply sour cherries

• I am a research assistant at Lincoln University for Clive Kaiser . I help maintain the plant for experiments in the Lincoln university nursery. I do Planting, Fertilising, and watering plants and a lot more tasks around the nursery. I also help with data collection and setting up trials.
• skills
• data collection and record keeping of experiments
• identification of plant pest and diseases

• Labelling, grading, and packing cherries, apricots, and plums. Stacking boxes and crates onto pallets in a cool store. Strapping and wrapping pallets. Printing labels.

• I work in the summer holidays on the orchard for the first few summers moving buckets around the orchard and in the packhouse for the last few seasons. Some times helping in the pre season with tree training and fixing irrigation. As well as nets

skills

• Grading, Packing ,Labelling cherries.
• tree training
• irrigation
• nets

• I worked on the family farm, where I was responsible for mustering sheep and moving electric fences.