The late Ivan Allen came to live in Shanagarry aged 17 in the depths of the depression in 1932, at the invitation of Wilson Strangman. As it was hard to make conventional farming pay, they planted orchards and sold apples. Ivan built glass houses and grew cucumbers and tomatoes and then developed a mushroom growing business. These limes proved to be very profitable up to the 1970’s. In 1943, in wartime, large quantities of tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumbers and apples were... More
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