Bad attitude the worst disability
BRENDAN Dipple reckons there is a much worse disability than losing the use of an arm or living with constant pain.
Mr Dipple runs Bare Essentials Quality Vegetables with one arm and believes a poor attitude is a much bigger barrier to success.
Bare Essentials is a bunched herb and vegetable enterprise in the Lockyer Valley that employs up to 35 backpackers each year.
It certainly wasn’t easy to build the business from the ground up 18 years ago, but with a stubbornness that was hard to match and a can-do attitude, Mr Dipple and his wife Janne made it through the crucial establishment phase and these days keep an eye firmly on the future.
Mr Dipple was born into the fourth generation of a market gardening family in Brisbane and always thought he’d be a farmer, even though it was more for the pleasure of working side by side with his dad than any great personal passion.
He had half an eye on a sporting career as well, but his dreams were shattered when he tore his brachial
plexus at age 18.
The important little bundle of nerves that runs from your spine to your arm is vital for proper movement and sensation, so the injury left him without the use of his arm in exchange for terrible, constant pain.
Read all about his journey in this week’s Rural Weekly, free inside tomorrow’s edition of The Chronicle.