From two ovens in her home kitchen (all council approved) in Inverell, NSW, Edwina Mill has handmade over 26,000 personalised biccies in the last 12 months. Her business Sprinkle and Bake was featured on Buy From the Bush almost 12 months to the day – taking it to some mind blowingly dizzy heights within hours.

You can Edwina at www.sprinkleandbake.com.au and under the same name in Instagram and Facebook.

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If you love country living then today’s guest will be another than needs no introduction. It's Claire Dunne the editor of Graziher magazine. At the age of just 22, fed up with the fact that no editors would commission her stories on rural women, she decided to go it alone and start own publication - she was living with her mum and dad on their family farm in Queensland, and pulled together the first issue in-between days doing farm work.

Last year Graziher celebrated its 5th birthday and this week, we’re all blown away by the excitement over the launch of the Graziher podcast, Life on the Land. Claire blows me away herself – she is so understated and yet so successful in her pursuit to build a community that celebrates rural women. Here’s her story ….

Right now here in Australia many of us are being plunged back into lockdown due to COVID-19 and for many the second time around is harder, more isolating and more mentally challenging. But what if you’d never left isolation? Today's guest, west Australian dairy farmer Tahlia McSwain has been stuck on a boat (a live export boat) in a port in South Africa for more than 100 days – after their plans to disembark were derailed by confusion and COVID. I came across Tahlia on Instagram about 2 months ago and I haven’t stopped thinking about how mentally challenging, boring and scary this experience would be for her. But she’s a bundle of strength and mature beyond her years as you will hear. I hope you are equally as blown away by her story as I am.

I’m honoured to say the least to have been able to interview today’s guest. It’s the former editor-in-chief Country Style Magazine Victoria Carey.

I occasionally write for Country Style magazine – this has been a dream of mine since I was child. I wanted to so badly to become a part of the pages of the magazine that seemed to be so revered by family and all the women in my community, my grandmother, my mother, our family friends and relatives. When I grew up a house was not complete without a bookcase or big pile of Country Style magazines, extending back years cataloging the most stylish houses, and occasionally featuring people we knew.

I feel so lucky to have worked with – and be guided by Victoria, and now to have had this conversation looking back on her career and the future of print media in Australia.

You can find Victoria @the editors house on Instagram.

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Today’s guest has a beautiful way of honouring her favourite family moments - through cooking. Lo Corcoran lives in Boorowa in southern NSW with her husband and her three daughters – and has spent a lot of her life in the kitchen – and often it’s been alongside some of the great cooks of her family. Her website and blog Lo’s Kitchen pays homage to this and she so generously shares all this goodness on Instagram too. She’s published 250 published recipes and 40 recipes waiting to be written up and a post wall full of recipes to include in her cookbook – which she is going to write – one day.

Today you're going to meet a girl, who has a community collaboration project that I think you should all get on board with. In fact, if you’re a small business owner, I know once you see this Instagram feed you won’t be able to help yourself!

It was at 2am that Tori Packer decided her page @the_smallbusiness_community on Instagram need to become reality. It's a curated page of beautiful products and services connecting the best small creative businesses and artisans across Australia.

I hope you enjoy meeting this energiser-bunny-bombshell girl! She has endless energy. As a treat she's written about her perfect Sunday and all the small businesses she would peruse along the way for our Company on Sunday newsletter. Sign up here if you aren't already part of the gang!

My guest on this episode was suggested by a beautiful listener (thank you) but for years I've been perving on her hats and handiwork from afar. It's Fiona Schofield, from Fiona Schofield Millinery based in Orange, NSW. The story that leads her to today is fascinating and dynamic. She speaks of a childhood in Forbes, NSW, the benefits of being the youngest child and attending her mother's 'Tuesday lunches'. And shares with us her journey in fashion at the Whitehouse Institute of Design, designing hats for Ansett Airlines air hostesses, what it looks like in her studio and her favourite podcasts and instagram accounts.

You can find HUGE list of her favourites on instagram in my soon-to-be-released newsletter 'Company On Sunday' by signing up here on my website mansonandcompany.com

“When we were little Mum got sick of us drawing on the walls and she used to cover our small hall, either weekly or daily, in brown paper and she would change it so we could keep drawing. Seeing things in that way – I knew I always wanted to be there,” says Steph, who is also one of 10 kids.

I’ve known Steph Corkhill Hyles for a long time, she's been an artist for 22 years and I think she is the world's most positive person. This positivity shines through in all her works and as you will learn today in her rituals at home on her farm between Bookham and Jugiong (she was almost my neighbour) and her approach to life and her children in general.

You can see some of her works at stephaniecorkhillhyles.com and on instagram @stephaniecorkhillhyles

While you are there (on Instagram) pop over and say hi to me @skye_manson. I'd love to hear your feedback and any suggestions for guests in the future.

Today’s guest is stylist, curator and shop owner Carlie Oates. She says our homes are our cafes, our restaurants and our nightclubs - this is true for everyone right now during coronavirus times, but is also always true of people living in the country, away from the cities.

Carlie moved with her husband from Sydney to a farm at Jugiong on the NSW central tablelands. Her husband had no farming experience and is now a farmer and Carlie – makes masterpieces of people’s homes through her interior design company and homewares store Curators Collective.

Carlie is lovely and insightful and has adapted her business to cope with COVID 19 lockdown and whatsmore she’s having a wonderful time creating new family rituals and cooking up a storm in her kitchen whilst the world goes through a revolution of sorts.

You can find Carlie here on instagram and you can get a good dose of retail therapy at her website curatorscollective.com.au

Australian photographer Kara Rosenlund is spending her isolation and lockdown days on North Stradbroke Island in Queensland and is using it as an opportunity to dive deeper into the nature that surrounds her home. She's sharing her journey on Instagram and through online courses in the hope it will, 'give people some distraction and make people feel good about being at home.'

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