QUANDONG harvest time is approaching, and nobody knows that better than Robert Tavian.

He runs the Broken Hill Quandong Farm on the edge of town, off the Silverton Road.

Not content with growing the santalum acuminatum for his own selfish purposes, Mr Tavian operates a farm of commercial proportions, his quandongs, once fully grown, travelling far and wide as a uniquely Outback delicacy, their f...