I know it's been a while. The end of 2025 was Tumultuous for me, with a capital T.

Of late I’ve become a full time farmer. Previously I was a farming sous chef, well actually not really I was really a mother, enabling the proper farmer to do their work while I did some part time work and kept the home fires burning - they are no longer farming so I am - and the mothering well that continues too. 

So it’s time for my world to get a bit smaller, before it hopefully gets big again.

This will be the final season of Company. 

I started this podcast 6 years ago and have interviewed over 100 guests

100 guests is a lot but it honestly feels more like 500 to me -  because it feels like I have been interviewing extraordinary rural people for my whole working life - which I actually have through my ABC work, and with other various ag companies and government agencies and through my on stage work.

Today's guest also has something to say about Endings.

It's the lovely, gentle Cressida Cains who for the last 15 years has developed and run Pecora Dairy a sheep dairy and cheesery in Robertson in the NSW Southern Highlands. 

But Pecora Dairy is no longer. 

At the end of last year Cressida made the tough decision to close that chapter. 

I think, in Australia, there's a certain stigma attached to any family that decides to leave a farm, or sell up - it's so often viewed as a failure. 

But Cressida wants to say; that it's not a failure, and she hopes to be able to change the narrative  - and say it's not a failure, it's brave - and its really important to recognise when it is time to stop, time to leave - rather than staying and staying and staying.

Company is a podcast produced in partnership with Rabobank Australia.