Stephanie is on a mission to eliminate the crippling isolation that can accompany rural motherhood.

The Motherland podcast was born out of Steph’s move from Melbourne to a small farming community in Tasmania’s northwest, which saw her confront firsthand the isolation that rural mums can feel. Sharing authentic stories of mums on the land, Motherland struck a nerve with women for its raw, unfiltered representation of motherhood.

Featuring:
2022 TAS AgriFutures Rural Women's Award Winner Stephanie Trethewey

Louise is the Founder of Farm Life Fitness – an online community that’s transforming the physical and mental health of people in rural Australia.

Farm Life Fitness runs 30-minute live, online group fitness classes, offering a quick, safe and effective way for people of all fitness levels to exercise from the comfort of their own home.

Hear the story about how the program came to life. 

Featuring:
2022 WA AgriFutures Rural Women's Award Winner Louise O'Neill 

In this episode we hear from Victorian-based Kimberley Furness, journalist and Founder of Oak Magazine who is passionate about telling the stories of women living in regional and rural Australia. 
Using the Westpac grant for the AgriFutures Rural Women's Award, Kimberley hopes to create an audio component of her inspirational magazine. 
Featuring:
2022 VIC AgriFutures Rural Women's Award Winner Kimberley Furness 

Kylie loved school from the moment she started. Naturally, she became a teacher and at the age of 21, moved from Tassie to Alice Springs to launch her career.
She spent some time as a governess and despite her teaching background, she learned there was a real need for more support for other remote families trying to teach their children from home. 
In 2020 Kylie launched RAISEducation – a not-for-profit organisation with the goal of building a community that supports remote educators to feel connected, empowered and confident about the lessons they deliver.
Featuring:
2022 NT AgriFutures Rural Women's Award Winner Kylie Jones 

As a single mum, money was tight. For Robyn Verrall, back then, food insecurity meant skipping a meal or spag bol for 10 nights in a row. The Keith-based beef and lamb producer is now helping tackle food insecurity, working in partnership with Kere to Country providing mentoring and logistics support to the group’s CEO, Jessica Wishart. 

Featuring:
2022 SA AgriFutures Rural Women's Award Winner Robyn Verrall

"When I was five years old my dad had a truck accident and that resulted in him becoming a paraplegic. We're from a beef cattle farm and it was a big life change for us but we decided to stay on the farm."

Improving accessibility in the agricultural industry is a goal for Josie Clarke. She launched  Ability Agriculture and is on  a mission to give a voice to people living with a disability, to change perceptions of their capacity to work in agriculture and create opportunities for them to be involved in the sector they love.

Featuring:
2022 NSW/ACT AgriFutures Rural Women's Award Winner Josie Clarke

Vanilla is an emerging rural industry in Australia with huge potential. There is one major roadblock which is preventing the spice from really taking off. The orchid relies on hand-pollination and it’s labour intensive. Julie Sosso is on a mission to change this process.

Julie is one of seven recipients of the inaugural AgriFutures Rural Women’s Acceleration Grant, which provides grants of $7,000 for professional development to help bring an idea, cause or vision to life. Listen to her story. 
Featuring:
Julie Sosso, The University of Queensland

Jade King wanted to grow something native and a little bit different on her Queensland-based plot of land. She put the question to her high school class and one student had the suggestion of growing finger limes. 300 trees later,  Jade is a commercial finger lime grower. 

Aided with the help of a Nuffield Scholarship, sponsored by the AgriFutures Australia Emerging Industries Program, Jade is on a mission to grow Australia's finger lime industry and establish an industry body to expand on research knowledge and skills. 

Featuring:
Jade King, Finger lime producer, Green Valley Fingerlimes 

AgriFutures growAG. has been created to make it easy to explore, find and connect with relevant Australian agrifood innovation expertise and research and commercialisation opportunities.  It's the gateway to Australia's agrifood innovation system in one easy to use location.

Since launching in April 2021, the growAG. platform has listed more than 2,500 research projects and 130 commercial opportunities. One of the businesses to take advantage of the platform is Toowoomba-based, DataFarming. Learn about Tim Neale's experience with the growAG. platform as well as his insights into collaboration with the agtech industry. 

Featuring:
Tim Neale, Managing Director, DataFarming 

This week we bring you a podcast episode from our AgriFutures growAG. podcast channel. We learn about Western Australia's famed marron crayfish and how it could become the next global food sensation. The innovative agritech startup Aquatic AI has developed a vertical farming system to ensure a more consistent supply of the crustacean for export markets.
Featuring:
Michael Storey and Andrew Walker, Co-Founders, Aquatic AI