She has already propagated cuttings from 100 heritage figs in Melbourne that were introduced to Australia by migrants. Now she's off on an interstate expedition to find more.
Ms Sadler is embarking on an interstate expedition to find even more heritage fig trees.
She may also follow up on tip-offs that there are heritage trees in Alice Springs, Ceduna, Adelaide, and the Grampians. "They will be sent out to fig growers in different parts of Australia where they will grow them too and help to try to identify them."First stop EustonMr Harding, aged in his 90s, said it was grown from a cutting taken from a heritage tree in nearby Cole Street, that was planted in the 1870s."I reckon it would have come from Renmark or somewhere in SA, Goolwa."
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