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From Pig Farming to Cheese Making: how grown up work experience changed my life
The Guardian Australia, July 2023
After burning out in the hospitality industry, I spent months doing internships all over Australia - and found a new world of opportunity

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Love when the saffies match the sunset ❤️

Well my first vintage has come to an end! It feels like I’ve been here for ever, and no time at all. I’m going to miss waking up to a view of the vines, and finishing my shifts with a cheeky wine at the crllar door (thanks @carlijnkleine

Vigneronne vignette

(Points to any one who can say dodgy bunghole in French)

First few days in Lutruwita at Pressing Matters (lots of box building, barrel washing but also wine tasting!) Today I walked up a big hill with Carla, ate some excellent hoppers at the market then played tourist as I ate a curried scallop pie under a

Guess who just signed a publishing contract!?

Catch me on the shelves in 2025, with Monash University Publishing!

Pretty nice life here at the flat of happiness

Feeling so privelaged to have these Summer nights, in this place, with this peace.

A little update from the weekend! Ive been away for two weeks and I’m delighted to see my beautiful garden thriving. The overwintered seedlings have gone bananas in the soil (which is staying beautifully moist thanks to a homemade dripper syste

I potted up some fledgling chilli seedlings at the end of summer to overwinter by my north facing lounge window. Surprise surprise there were also some tomato seeds in the soil that took the opportunity to sprout and now I find myself outrageously pr

Beach Hut ✅
Bintang ✅
Book ✅

Living the dream at Barry’s Place ✅

We call this one “The Gintern”

She’s a menace at the market!!
She cannot be stopped!!

#RapidCreekMarkets #DarwinLocalFood

An update from Larrakia country.

I wake up with the sun streaming through the palms at dawn. I like to learn by doing and this week we learnt an important lesson about transferring liquid from one vessel to another (cue the mop…)
I blended my

My new office 🤩

@darwindistillingco @charliesofdarwin

Market hauls just hit different in the tropics 🍍

@clare.quinlan

Very different sunset on Larrakia saltwater country today - its a balmy 27 degrees.

I'm contributing to a book by @ausfoodsov and they've just kicked off their crowdfunding campaign.

Repost: 💚🌱✊ Help us raise $30,000 to publish Eating Democracy! 💚🌱✊

It’s been four years since AFSA published its last book, Farming Democr

A top notch sunset on Ngunnawal Ngambri for my last night in town.

I’m heading off on another internship adventure to Larrakia saltwater country.

I’m spending about a month at @darwindistillingco before jetting off to visit @tess.oaks

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