This is an extract from episode 74 featuring the end of my conversation with the founding director and current Chair of Perth City Farm, Rosanne Scott. We’d just been talking about some of the powerful stories of Aboriginal heritage where City Farm is located. That lead to the exchange we start with here, about arts and culture being central to organising societies in holistic, fulfilling and effective ways. We go on to trace this theme through Rosanne’s life – from her childhood in Kolkata, to her early incarnation as a primary school teacher, and on through a host of divergent and extraordinary threads that led to City Farm, and beyond.

We follow Rosanne through the Theosophical Society and Findhorn, to the PIA Wadjuri community and Wooleen Station in the Murchison, to Activate the Wheat Belt and the year of the pandemic. We end up at her life mantra, and some very moving and entertaining personal reflections.

Title slide: Perth City Farm (supplied).

You can hear the rest of our conversation in the main episode, ‘City Farm: From industrial wasteland to cultural icon, with founding director Rosanne Scott’. 

You’ll find a series of terrific photos on that web page too. 

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Pre-roll music: Heartland Rebel, by Steven Beddall (sourced from Artlist).

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