Many of the men worked on the hop farms, the apple and cherry orchards, or the wood industries that dominated the local economy.
He bought a hop farm at Glenorchy.
Until 1997 The hop farm was known as The Whitbread Hop Farm and was owned by the Whitbread brewery.
Hops were previously an important crop, however large hop farms have over the last few years been sold and/or turned into dairy farms and eucalypt and pine plantations.
Brought up on one of Hawk's hop farms near New Norfolk she and Ben have had a natural and easy upbringing, attending the local primary school.
By the close of the 1940s, Waterville's working hop farms had all been converted to other uses.
This plain is part of the so-called Garden of England, named for its extensive orchards and former hop farms, sheep and cattle.
The strip was built on the site of a former hop farm and had grown to 12 homes along the strip in 1976.
The hop farms started to use machinery to pick the hops and didn't require the labour from the travellers, and they started to use labour from abroad.
They also appeared at The Mighty Boosh festival, Saturday 5 July 2008 at the hop farm, Kent.