Life on the Land

Today's guest on Life on the Land is our cover girl, Yawuru Bunuba women Cara Peek is a force. She spent her childhood days in multicultural Melbourne and as a self confessed 'geek', Cara is incredibly intelligent, so much so that she studied Law but soon found that the law was too slow for her and took matters into her own hands. Now she lives closer to her ancestors in Broome in the Kimberley wh...

Today’s guest became a household name in Australia almost overnight. Warren women, Grace Brennan is Buy From The Bush. Last Christmas, in desperation, searching to offer her community just the tiniest germ of hope to help get through the drought for a just a bit longer, she started a Instagram page encouraging people in the city, to buy their kris kringle presents from businesses in the bush. She...

Today’s chat is with Grace Quast. If you’re a reader of Graziher you may have seen Grace’s gorgeous face splashed across the pages modelling for various fashion shoots, or spied her name in the byline of a story. This multi-skilled journalist and farmer is living proof a satisfying career isn’t hampered by geography. Living with husband David on their property ‘Domang’ half way between Moree and G...

It's fair to say that 2020 has been a tough year for most, certainly an extraordinary year like we’ve never seen before. But for today’s guest, young dairy farmer Tahlia McSwain from Busselton in south west Western Australia it’s been a shocker. Earlier this year she took a job as a stockwoman, escorting sheep and cattle on a live export vessel. She’d done it before and she should have been home t...

The name Jane Cay is synonymous with trailblazing success. The mum of three is the founder of Birdsnest, the little Cooma shop which has turned into a digital commerce giant, turning over $25 million a year. With nearly 150 staff, the accolades have rolled in. Jane has been named number one in the Top 50 people in E-Commerce, and Birdsnest has been named the fourth best place to work in Australia....

Pip Brett is like a shower of confetti on a sunshine-y day. She epitomised her styling motto 'More is more, less is a bore. The founder of clothing and homewares emporium, The Sonic located in the Orange in New South Wales, Pip is a total inspiration for regional retail. She is a brightly clad creative whirlwind who innately knows how to bring ideas to life. With a fiercely loyal community and a g...

Author, blogger and farmer Sophie Hansen is no stranger to the Graziher crowd. She regularly contributes recipes to the magazine, working alongside other rural creatives to bring an everyday eating scene beautifully to life through great photography and styling. Sophie grew up in the city, in Sydney and only moved to the country when she fell in love with her now husband Tim who lives just outside...

All over the country people are throwing open their windows allowing the sweet Spring air to infiltrate - homes and minds – and awaken our senses. In most parts of the country it’s a wonderful season, worth celebrating. There are still parts of the country that are dry and dusty, insipid almost and we are thinking of you. Today’s guest, Claire Austin has lived through that and it was during times...

This episode deals with mental ill health and addiction . If this brings anything up for you, you can speak with someone right now at Lifeline on 13 11 14. Alcohol is considered by many the social lubricant of rural life. We knock off with a beer, celebrate and commiserate with a bevvy and mix a drink with every event, from the footy final to the country races. We often think of alcoholism as swig...

For many years now, New Zealand born Fiona Baird has been bringing fun, fashion and a feverishly hard work ethic to her work as a stock woman on live export shipments from Australia throughout all of South East Asia. Her story is so unique because she doesn’t allow the grit and grime of working with animals all day, dampen her style standards of well done hair and strong red lipstick. But it wasn’...

Christine humbly refers to herself as a farmer, living mostly in central west NSW but between there and two properties in the far western corner New South Wales with her partner, affectionately know as the Ginga Ninja and she has two grown children living in Canberra and Adelaide. But her story is remarkable –Christine has always had a deep love for the land and for animals – and her drive to have...

This episode has some language which isn’t suitable for little ears, and deals with the aftermath of a bushfire and mental ill health. If this brings anything up for you, you can speak with someone right now at Lifeline on 13 11 14 . Today's guest Georgia Mattschoss is a mum and farmer from South Australia. What a rollercoaster Georgia has ridden. A series of unforeseen circumstances have thrown s...

Annabelle Hickson isn’t your average country girl, in fact, even though she’s written extensively about her life on the land she still feels like a foreigner travelling to another wonderful planet. She's lived in Moree and now on a farm near Tenterfield in northern New South Wales for almost a decade with her husband Ed and three children and continues to be astonished by her life, lifestyle and t...

Our guest for today's show is Grace McLeod, a young farmer from Western Victoria. If you fancy a McLeod's Daughters joke she's already beat you to it - often seen on horseback with her three working dogs never far behind she lives her own version of Drovers Run every day. Grace is currently managing her family's two properties which straddle the Victorian and the South Australian border with aroun...

It's fitting that Julie McDonald is our first guest for the Life on the Land podcast. Her story is extraordinary, but many of the challenges and triumphs she's lived through, run parallel to the experience of other women all over rural and regional Australia. For Julie, her story is about falling in love; a life on the land; her husband Zanda, her four daughters; being CFO of one of Australia larg...

Welcome to our new podcast telling stories of women who live in rural and regional Australia. Stories from all kinds of women, who have lived all kinds of lives from all different walks of life. In our first season over 8 episodes, join our hosts Skye Manson and Emily Herbert as they speak to women from all over Australia. Hear from farmers, mothers, photographers, business owners, teachers, nurse...