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Life on the Land is Graziher’s first podcast that tells the stories of rural and regional women across Australia. Each episode explores how events in the guest’s life — tragedy, loss, mental health, domestic violence, bush fire, relocation, childhood — have shaped the individuals they are today.
Hosted by Emily Herbert and Sammie O’Brien. Produced by Jayne Cuddihy.
SUBSCRIBELife on the Land is Graziher’s first podcast that tells the stories of rural and regional women across Australia. Each episode explores how events in the guest’s life — tragedy, loss, mental health, domestic violence, bush fire, relocation, childhood — have shaped the individuals they are today.
Hosted by Emily Herbert and Sammie O’Brien. Produced by Jayne Cuddihy.
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The Farm Diaries is regular column in Graziher magazine, written by Maggie MacKellar In the beginning, it was an extract from Maggie’s farm journal kept during a lambing season in Tasmania during the 2018/2019 drought. Now, it’s an account of the coming together of human and animal life on the farm.
We are bringing Maggie’s words to life in Graziher’s second podcast, The Farm Diaries.
SUBSCRIBEThe Farm Diaries is regular column in Graziher magazine, written by Maggie MacKellar In the beginning, it was an extract from Maggie’s farm journal kept during a lambing season in Tasmania during the 2018/2019 drought. Now, it’s an account of the coming together of human and animal life on the farm.
We are bringing Maggie’s words to life in Graziher’s second podcast, The Farm Diaries.
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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 around 6,000 acres of arable and 2,000 acres of grazing for just under 3,500 head of sheep it’s been a busy 3 years since Grace came back to work on the farm full time.
She very kindly drove to town to get reception for this conversation with Emily Herbert. They speak about a vast array of topics from mental ill-health, the challenges of isolation on the farm, this year – compounded by COVID-19 and properties by a state border to the importance of travel beyond the farm gate to gain new perspectives.
Thank you so much to this episode’s sponsor, Just Country.
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 largest privately owned, beef enterprises, McDonald Holdings and so many more things. Sadly life was to become unhinged seven years ago, when Zanda, passed away after a farming accident on their cattle property 75 kilometres south of Cloncurry in Queensland.
She shares this story and talks about life now with Skye Manson for this edition of Life on the Land.
Thank you so much to this episode’s sponsor, the Zanda McDonald Award.
