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Sarah Hudson is a senior features writer on The Weekly Times with three decades experience in journalism, including at the Herald Sun and in the UK and US.

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Livestock

Ian Chapman, runs a 400ha cattle property at Store Creek near Orange in NSW with his wife Sharon. He is a board member of Land to Market, run by the Australian Holistic Management Cooperative Limited

Why this cattle farmer embraces holistic approach

Getting down and dirty comes naturally to this champion of holistic farm management.

Lifestyle

Vintage tractor enthusiast, Phillip Island farmer Ian McFee

Tractors still pull at Ian’s heart

Phillip Island farmer Ian McFee remembers farming with horses, but now has a tractor collection reflecting a life of farm work.

Lifestyle

COUNTRY LIVING: Wild Food FarmJude Mayall runs the Outback Chef Wild Food Farm at Rhyll. Since 2005 she has run Outback Chef, sourcing native foods from around Australia, selling wholesale. Last year she bought the 4ha food farm which has about 50 different bush species, with the ingredients used in the farm cafe and sold retailPICTURED: Jude Mayall with the lemon scented tea treePHOTOGRAPHER: ZOE PHILLIPS

Outback Chef’s passion for bush food

Outback Chef creator Jude Mayall now has her own native food farm to call home in Phillip Island.

Lifestyle

CL: Shearer Chloe Dann at Chruchill IslandChloe Dann is a shearer also a blacksmith, demonstrating the skill at Churchill Island's farm demonstration attraction.PICTURED: Shearer Chloe Dann at Chruchill Island PHOTOGRAPHER: ZOE PHILLIPS

What it’s like to work on one of Victoria’s oldest farms

Milking, shearing, whip cracking — it’s all in a day’s work for Chloe Dann at this heritage farm near Phillip Island.

Agribusiness

Michael Shakes, who owns the Atherton IGA supermarket, now grows table grapes on his farm in north Queensland to cater for out-of-season demand.

Grape grower offers winter twist on tradition

How a Queensland farmer attempted the ‘impossible’ and met the demand for locally grown winter grapes.

Lifestyle

Manager and principal ecologist of Nature Glenelg Trust Mark Bachmann and Walker Swamp

Trust’s land rehab mission on Vic-SA border

Real estate across the country is in high demand. But for this organisation, it is not the big bucks driving acquisitions.

Lifestyle

Diirectors of the Earth Sanctuary, Dan, Ben, and Tom Falzon, will be hosting the Star Party in Alice Springs as part of the Guiness World Record attempt for most people stargazing across multiple venues.Alice Springs 15 May 2018. Photo: EMMA MURRAY

Farming brothers create outback sanctuary

The Falzon family left the Mornington Peninsula for central Australia to create Earth Sanctuary, doing their bit to help the environment.

Lifestyle

Country Living: Kathy GabrielKathy Gabriel on her farm near Benambra in the Tablelands Valley.PICTURED: Kathy Gabriel with her horse named Memphis and dog named Pete.PHOTOGRAPHER: ZOE PHILLIPS

From remote East Gippsland to remote Mongolia

Kathy Gabriel rode to prominence through social media’s Experience Australian Agriculture. Now she’s again taking on one of the world’s toughest races.

Lifestyle

Peter Preuss is the campus coordinator of the Woori Yallock Farm School.from left;Students from Croydon Community SchoolTom Lewis, Judd Lewis, Peter Preuss and Aaron KarlstrandPhoto by Chloe Smith Photo by Chloe Smith.

Farm program helps ‘turn kids around’

Kids who struggle in school, or need more team work and social skills are being sent to horticulture training. And Peter Preuss can’t understand why there’s not more programs like it.

Lifestyle

COUNTRY LIVING: WAMAGlenda Lewin, co-creator of the proposed Wildlife Art Museum of Australia, WAMA near Halls Gap. A $3.8 million art gallery, multi-purpose function room, and caf with outdoor area will be built in the next two years on a 5.5ha area of the property.PICTURED: Glenda Lewin, co-creator of the proposed Wildlife Art Museum of AustraliaPHOTOGRAPHER: ZOE PHILLIPS

Wimmera’s art museum with a difference

Plans for a multi-million dollar museum near Halls Gap are gathering pace.

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