LOCALS know them for the fresh vegetables they sold out the front of their Bossley Park home, grown in the market gardens out the back.
Now Francesco and Rosina Iogha will celebrate the fruits of 50 happy years of marriage on Saturday.
The couple met in 1957 after Francesco noticed Rosina on a local bus.
``I had seen her around town before and I offered her my seat on the bus, from then I knew,'' he said. Rosina said even though she was only 16 and he was working long hours for Penfolds wine at the time, they found time for each other.
``Each time I couldn't wait to see him, and he was very good looking!'' she said.
``A year and a half later, after he asked for my parents' permission, we were married at St Gertrude's Church in Smithfield with the whole town there.''
Four children and four grandchildren later, the couple say lasting 50 years was not easy.
``You need love to get through the hard times when there's lots of work, money is tight and the worry of children. But if you love each other, respect and trust each other, and persist, you can make it,'' Rosina said.
The couple has reduced their market gardens but still cherish passing on traditional recipes to the family and catching up with friends for card games and enjoying their home grown olives.