Introducing Lisa Claessen – Teacher of Agriculture and Hospitality, QLD. 1. Summary I was born in Melbourne, to a country born father and a city raised mother. I don’t know where it all began, but all I can tell you is I have had a lifelong desire to be involved in farming and agriculture.
Introducing Rob and Marg Agnew from Esperance, WA 1. Family and enterprise My husband Rob and I are between farming and retirement and we live on a property north east of Esperance in WA. We downsized a couple of years ago and now work on our holding that keeps us gainfully employed and busy…
Introducing Lynne Strong from Clover Hills Dairies, NSW Firstly I would like to thank Fleur McDonald for giving me this opportunity to share my story and congratulate her for taking the lead in Australian Year of the Farmer by sharing 52 farmers’ stories. For too long food has been about cooking and eating and…
Introducing Ben from Bond Springs Station, NT 1. Summary of your family and farming enterprise My Family started in the Flinders Ranges, and then in 1959 my Mum moved to the NT as a School of the Air Governess. She loved the Red Centre so her and Dad purchased Bond Springs Station in the…
Introducing Angus Whyte from Wyndam, North of Wentworth, NSW 1. Summary of your family and farming enterprise My name is Angus Whyte I live with my wife Kelly and 8 year old son Mitchell at “Wyndham”, a 12,500ha pastoral property on the Anabranch River 85km north of Wentworth NSW. We consider ourselves “graziers”, in…
As I said in my first blog for 2012, it’s going to be a busy year! The Year of Reading, Year of Silver Gums (that’s my own ‘Year of’ for writing) and the Australian Year of the Farmer. A bit about Year of the Farmer from their website: Australian Year of the Farmer…
My mate, Anna Hill, penned this poem the day she delivered me to the airport, last week. Now I would like to lay claim that it was our talk of farming that twigged her flurry of creativity, but alas, I think that might be taking too much credit! This version of ‘The Night Before Christmas’…
My blog has been a bit quiet on the farming side lately–only because I’ve been so busy in the sheep yards. The approaching spring is a really busy time, particularly for sheep graziers. It means flies. We’ve been running all our sheep through the jetting race, trying to head off any problems. We’ve been crutching…
Being a farmer can be trying, especially since our livelihood is so much at the whim of the weather. This season started off beautifully with 30 millimetres of soaking rain over a few days. After such a long dry summer, it was a relief to see some green poking through the ground. It’s often been…
…required for a busy stock based enterprise, approximately 100km east of Esperance. Prime lamb production, including a feedlot, cattle and hay making are some of our main focuses with a small amount of cropping. A four bedroom house, with a primary school bus to the front gate, is available with a good wage for suitable…
We had some drama in our neighbourhood today! A fire started just to the back of our farm and was on a neighbouring farm – if you’re a regular visitor, you’ve probably seen me write about my friend Gill who is the world’s most amazing cook! This fire photo is what fronted her and her family…
A little while ago, Anthony and I made a journey across the Nullarbor to Adelaide. We were going to look for good stud rams, to help advance our White Suffolk Stud. After a day in the airports we went straight from there to the show! It was wonderful to walk in and be greeted by…
There’s always something to do on a farm and we’ve been picking rocks recently. This paddock is going to be seeded to oats, when we get our opening rains. As you can see, it’s pretty dry here at the moment but we’re hoping for rain so we can get this crop and make our hay.…
Living on the farm, 100km from Esperance, we don’t often get to go out for meals in flash restaurants or eat meals that I haven’t cooked! However, us farmers have delicacies in our dams that eclipse the tastes of garlic prawns in the best restaurant that you’ve ever eaten in! A couple of our dams…
Over 500.000 books sold Into the Night Detective Dave Burrows returns in another breathtaking tale of rural suspense from the bestselling author of Rising Dust. ‘Nobody does rural fiction quite like Fleur McDonald.’ The Weekly Times “Fleur McDonald has a wonderful way with telling rural stories in a special way … A great summer read.” Samstillreading on…
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Detective Dave Burrows returns in another breathtaking tale of rural suspense from the bestselling author of Rising Dust.
Detective Dave Burrows is devastated. After an acrimonious divorce, Dave has no choice but to let his ex-wife and her father Mark call the shots: supervised, one-hour visits are all he’s allowed if he wants to see his two young daughters. And he knows he’ll jump through any hoops to see Bec and Alice.
On Leo Perry’s farm, sixty kilometres out of Yorkenup, the only positive in Leo’s day is the unswerving loyalty of his dog, Coffee. Thanks to yet another power outage, Leo is out in the morning heat, refueling the water pump. But seconds later he watches in horror as the tank explodes. Flames engulf wooden beams and sparks ignite grass just as Leo realises he’s at the end of a one-way petrol trail, the fire roaring straight for him.
When Dave and his partner Detective Bob Holden are called to Leo’s ravaged farm, they’re unclear if they’re dealing with arson, suicide or something else. There’s been no sign of Leo anywhere, and his wife Jill is distraught. Leo and his dog appear to have vanished. But, when Dave and Bob begin their investigation, what they find makes no sense at all.
Over 500.000 books sold Broad River Station A young constable faces prejudice in a small country town, but the search for a missing child changes everything. A breathtaking novel of rural suspense from the bestselling Voice of the Outback. Mia, a newly graduated constable, on her first post is assigned to Broad River, a small…
Laura Murphy will need to call on all her grit and determination to retain her beloved farm. But will her fierce self-reliance close her off to the possibility of love?
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While mystery surrounds the accidental shooting of her husband, Fiona Forrest struggles to preserve the family farm in a suspenseful, pacy and action packed novel from the author of Crimson Dawn and Indigo Storm.
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Blue Skies is the inspirational story of a young woman battling to save the family farm no matter what it takes.
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Podcasts So you want to be a writer- Australian Writers’ Centre. Fleur reads the prologue of her book, and she answers a few quite thorny questions about the rural fiction genre. Rural Rockstars with Katrina Myers – Fleur McDonald Author and Advocate “It was an absolute pleasure speaking with Fleur today, and I hope you…
