“Deep Weathered Jam”: Creative Conversations with Geologic Mobilities and Farming Landscapes

Figures & data

FIGURE 1 Red soil.

FIGURE 2 Railway tracks for cane harvest.

FIGURE 3 A patchwork view of the red fields around Bundaberg.

FIGURE 4 An irrigation pipe in a sweet potato field; fragments of cane alongside a railway line.

FIGURE 5 A section of the heritage listed stone wall.

FIGURE 6 Sweet potatoes being graded; boxes of take-home produce in a hostel kitchen.

FIGURE 7 Leftover produce scattered around inside worker hostels.

FIGURE 8 Sweet potatoes from a nearby farm (left); “Nearby” if you’re zoomed right in on Google maps (right).

FIGURE 9 Cutting the rock of sweet potato. In the distance, behind the low shrubs, the wind carries the sound of waves tumbling onto the sand.

FIGURE 10 Purple sweet potato jam.

FIGURE 11 Wallam Reserve Rest Area, alongside the road to Childers.

FIGURE 12 Preparing the jam.

FIGURE 13 A curious local inspecting the product.

FIGURE 14 Limes from a roadside stall (left); Zonhoven Rest Area (right).

FIGURE 15 “Last of the citrus season jam/Zonhoven Rest Area near Gayndah.”