Category: Rural Life

Struggling with infertility while living remotely in the bush isn’t something for the faint-hearted. Raine Holcombe is one who has met the challenge.

After travelling between properties with her dad, Madeline Curr appreciates the comforts of home.

An artist and farmer connects to the Australian landscape through her work.

For Megan Gooding, diversifying her farm and business in WA's Wheatbelt meant taking an innovative approach that has brought both challenges and successes.

Susan Dowling, co-founder of the million-dollar flood response charity, has recently been nominated for Woman of the Year in the Queensland Rural Regional and Remote Women’s Network's Strong Women in Leadership awards. Here, she reflects on how Sisters of The North came to be.

View South Australian-based maker Grace Simpson launched her own business in 2019 after struggling to find Australian-made personalised gifts. She chats all things Hello Parker & Co with Graziher. Tell me a bit about your background and how Hello Parker & Co started?I live on a farm in Tintinara, SA with my husband and 2-year-old son Parker. When […]

Words and photography contributed by Jessie Persse for the QLD ICPA, published in the  Graziher Boarding School Guide. Three years ago, when my eldest started at Boarding School, I had every man and his dog ask me if I was okay. I was fine. I’d had twelve years to wrap my head around my children […]

Words and photography by Grace Cobb. Twenty years ago, when 70 women gathered in a tin shed in the Queensland town of Weengallon, they could never have known what they had started.  LEFT TO RIGHT: WPLD President Emma Montgomery, Kellie Mitchell, hostess-with-the-mostess Sally Rigney and Georgina Donelan. That first event was a fundraiser to buy cleaning […]

Braced with nothing but an Agricultural Science degree from Sydney University and fond memories of visiting his family’s hobby farm when he was a child, my dad gave up his life in Sydney and moved to Moree in his late thirties to “have a go” at farming.

Alice, can you squeeze my hand?” Lying on an operating table, the fluorescent surgical lights are shining in on Alice’s brain tissue, and the surgeons are asking her questions. A circular piece of her skull has been removed and is sitting on a stainless steel trolley across the room. A sea of blue scrubs and white […]