Asher Cohen
Farm and Property Manager
CBCo Brewery, Margaret River
My role at CBCO Brewing’s Margaret River venue is the Farm and Property Manager. Basically, I look after the venue maintenance, the livestock and farm, and the general grounds and gardens. The job is varied and my day-to-day work changes each day.
Before this role, I finished my chef’s apprenticeship and worked in kitchens for around 15 years. I then jumped ship to work on boats. I started as deckhand and ended up in an engineer’s role, looking after all mechanical systems and maintenance on a 42m superyacht. More recently we bought a rundown farm and entered the farming world. I’ve been working on local farms gaining knowledge in the farming industry, whilst trying to set our own farm up.
I love the outdoors and working with livestock. This role appealed to me as my love of food and farming come together, being able to deliver quality produce, and see the end result in great food coming out of the kitchen for our guests.
My day usually starts around 6.30am for my livestock checks and feeding. Then I jump on the mower or there is usually something that needs fixing or sorting around the venue. My workday is unpredictable. It can be a pretty cruisy job until it isn’t! Stuff breaks or goes wrong usually at the worst possible time, when you are already busy or right as the doors for service open. If something is going to fail, it will usually do it on a hectic day, when it’s bucketing down with rain, or just as you’re about to knock off for the day.
You really need to be flexible, physically as well as mentally. My to-do list changes several times a day and a lot of the time the things on the list are totally different from the list I started with at the start of the day.