Author name: Hayley Dawson

Siblings, Erin and Josh Cranwell know a thing or two about Brussels sprouts. Five generations of their family have produced them, but returning to the farm after high school to take up a career in the business has surprised everyone, not least themselves. The brother and sister from Hay Valley and Lake Plains in South […]

It’s a big call to leave the familiar comforts of life in the city for the wide-open spaces of farm life. Even tougher to make the move in the middle of crippling drought. It was harder than Kaitie Nash thought, much harder, and that took a toll on her mental health. Social media became a

Life on the land is often picturesque – picture worthy even. So, when a former visual arts teacher moves to a farm in beautiful Mudgee in NSW, you can imagine there would be a fair bit of creativity going on. It started with a few pictures on greetings cards for the local markets. Now, her

Mum, wife and bull catcher are roles you don’t often see on the same resume. Liz Cook does it all as an outback ringer in the Northern Territory. It essentially means, her job is to wrangle feral cattle for a living. Bull catching can be a lucrative business with hundreds of thousands of wild bulls

Leila McDougall wears many hats – not just an Akubra. As well as being a farmer, she’s a mother, a teacher, a writer, producer, actor and former Miss Australia. Most recently, she’s harnessed all those skills to become a mental health advocate in a self-funded film called ‘Just a Farmer’ which is currently being shown