'New Zealand Odyssey', published in 1989 by Heinemann, was authored by me, Don Donovan (who did the text and illustrations) and Euan Sarginson, who did the photography and design. In this series of blog posts, I will publish some of my drawings.
I think that it was probably in my ignorance that I found this worm farm interesting. I'd never seen one before, didn't know that they existed and wondered whether you could get milk, fleece or steaks off a well bred worm? Here it was in the middle of farmland nowhere; was it a joke?
No, of course not. Like bees, worms do a lot more for us than we ever realize, and the people who owned the worm farm knew what a contribution they make to soil improvement.
I called my drawing 'Helminthic husbandry in the Brooklyn Valley'. It fits.
© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz
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