Gardener and orchardist
Lu Moo, better known as Granny Lum Loy and also known as Lee Toy Kim, had an unlikely, atypical and very long active life. Born in Taishan (Toishan or Hoisan) in southern coastal China in the mid 1880s, she was brought to the Northern Territory in 1894 as an adopted daughter of a family with a business in Darwin’s Chinatown. From 1918, with a short absence due to evacuation during World War 2, she managed a market garden, mango orchard and poultry business, selling her produce locally and shipping mangos to Western Australia.
