Locally grown garlic can be bought by Australian consumers all year round after decades of work

Garlic lovers can now buy Australian-grown all year round, thanks to decades of work by persistent farmers who refused to give up on the difficult crop. “I was a young man with black hair and now I’m an old man with white hair so it’s taken literally a lifetime,” Australian Garlic Producers chief executive Nick Diamantopolous said. When he began growing garlic in the 1990s, most Australians were eating imported bulbs, predominantly from China. But a belief that consumers would back locally grown, Mr Diamantopolous set out to take on the world. Sheer persistence The task of converting a market…