“His brother is the teacher in the secondary school in Young. That guy told us that there is a big cherry season, a lot of backpackers coming from all around the world to do cherry picking and packing.

“So, here we are.”

For others like Marcus Schmid of Germany, Young’s cherry picking is a welcome job on an extended working holiday around the country.

“I’ve met a friend, actually.” he said.

“We decided to work together on a construction site, and since then we’ve been travelling around Australia and cherry picking, it makes for a lot of fun.”

A local by comparison, store manager for Fairfields Orchard Polly Bryant has travelled down from Sydney to help out with the farm that originally belonged to her grandparents.

With farming in her blood and a cherry blossom romance in her heart, she tells me how she met the love of her life while working at the orchard.

“For me I guess you could say it was quite lucky that we have all these tourists here, and he was travelling round with his friend - he’s french - and ... that’s how we met.” She continues, offering a cheerful perspective on the influx of workers over course of the harvest season. 

“This year’s been amazing. We’ve had some really lovely people come from all over the world, and I quite like that diversity we get; … Not a lot of country towns get to experience that - I think it’s very rare - and I think it does Young a lot of good to have that culture here, and meet new people.

“There’s nothing ever wrong with meeting new people.”