By Catherine Forge (Curator, Invisible Farmer Project, Museums Victoria) with Janet Jeffs (Executive Chef and Farmer, Ginger Catering and Ballalaba Farm)  Industry: paddock-to-plate farming and cooking Location: Braidwood, NSW, and Canberra, ACT Farmer/Chef: Janet Jeffs is Director and Executive Chef of Ginger Catering at the National Arboretum, Canberra, and she also operates her small-scale farm, Ballalaba Farm, near Braidwood, NSW, where she farms a range of fruit, nuts and rare-breed Dexter cattle. Janet Jeffs sitting with locally farmed pumpkins in the ..read more

CULTURAL WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story contains images of people who have died. About this story: Tauri Simone is a proud Koa woman who has spent the past 15 years living and working as a stockwoman within the pastoral industry. As well as being a stockwoman herself, Tauri has also written her PhD thesis on the history of Aboriginal women in the Australian pastoral industry from the 1860s onwards. Her research shines a light on the vital contribution of Aboriginal women to the pastoral industry– their hard work, resourcefulness and their pas ..read more

By Alexandra Brown (Student Project Intern, Invisible Farmer Project, Museums Victoria) with Nan Bray (Farmer, White Gum Wool, Tasmania) and Catherine Forge (Curator, Invisible Farmer Project, Museums Victoria) Industry: Wool Location: Oatlands, Tasmania Farmer/Farm: Nan Bray is an ethical sheep and wool farmer based in Oatlands in the Tasmanian Midlands. She manages a flock of around 500 sheep producing superfine merino wool, which she sells online and also through wholesalers via her yarn business White Gum Wool.  Nan Bray in a paddock on her farm, Oatlands, Tasmani ..read more

By Alexandra Brown (Student Project Intern, Invisible Farmer Project, Museums Victoria) with Marlee Langfield (CEO and Farmer, Wallaringa, Cowra, NSW). *** This blog post is based on an interview that was conducted in 2018 between curator Catherine Forge (Museums Victoria) and broadacre farmer Marlee Langfield for the Invisible Farmer Project. Industry: Broadacre Farming, Mixed Cropping, Grains Location: Wallaringa, Cowra, New South Wales Marlee Langfield out in the paddock at Wallaringa, NSW. Photographer: Catherine Forge ..read more

By Benita Woodley Benita Woodley, along with her three sisters, is part of the sixth generation to grow up on her family’s sheep, cattle and cropping property in Wongarbon, New South Wales. Aged 20, Benita is currently studying a Bachelor of Communication at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, and is on a mission to share stories about farming and rural life with the wider world. Over the past two years Benita has been photographing her family at work on the land and publishing these photographs via her growing Instagram account, @_girlbehindthecamera_. In doing so, Benita aims not o ..read more

By Elizabeth Graham with Alex Thomas  Alex Thomas, winner of the 2018 South Australian AgriFutures Rural Woman of the Year Award, 2018. Image: Jackie Cooper, Jack of Hearts Studio Elizabeth Graham is a student at Deakin University currently volunteering with the Invisible Farmer Project at Museums Victoria. In this guest blog post Elizabeth interviews 2018 winner of the South Australian AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award, Alex Thomas.Alex Thomas grew up on Parnaroo Stati ..read more

By Jaclyn WyplerJaclyn Wypler (wypler@wisc.edu) is a PhD student in the departments of Sociology and Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States), where she is currently researching LGBT+ farmers. Earlier in 2018 Jaclyn wrote a guest blog post for the Invisible Farmer Project where she reflected on the lives and experiences of queer American women farmers. In this follow-up blog post, Jaclyn shares her experience of travelling to Australia and spending six months in New South Wales and Victoria, where she interviewed queer women farmers about t ..read more