Host: Mel McDonald
Location: Yeeda Station and the Greater Kimberley Region
My husband, Judd, our little boy, Trent, and I live at Yeeda Station near the mouth of the mighty Fitzroy River in the West Kimberley. Judd looks after Yeeda Station for Jack and Vicki Burton working as part of their Yeeda Pastoral Company team and I work from home for Rangelands NRM (Natural Resource Management) which has been reduced to part time since Trent has come along.
I have been working for Rangelands NRM for 3.5 years now in my dream job. I have had the best of it: living on cattle stations; working in a job which combines my passions of animals, farming and the land; and working with energetic, dynamic people who share these passions.
I am looking forward to sharing with you some of our personal and station stories as well as some of the exciting things I get to do working in Landcare and Natural Resource Management.
Episode 60. Jess Di Pasquale – Equine adventures in Australia and abroad
Jess Di Pasquale is a born and bred Territory girl. Even though her childhood was colored with living on and visiting cattle stations, she went on the excel in the English equine discipline of Mounted Games, competing overseas 3 times while Representing Australia. In this episode, Jess shares her latests plans to compete in the […]
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Episode 58. Danyelle Haigh – Don’t judge this book by its cover
Let’s be honest, we love to judge. It’s second nature to take someone at face value and make assumptions about them. In social science, this phenomenon is called schema are mental structures that an individual uses to organize knowledge and guide cognitive processes and behaviour. So what that means, is that we use Schema to categorize objects and […]
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From brats to bovines
Written by Sarah Johnson It started off as a distant dream back when I was in high school. You know.. the good old year 10 subject “careers”, when it’s that dreaded time where you’re almost an adult and have to start making career choices. Everyone else was expressing that they wanted to become lawyers, engineers, […]
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Episode 57. Luke Hayes – Venturing off the pastoral pathway
Luke Hayes was born a 6th generation pastoralist on Deep Well Station in Central Australia. You’d be forgiven if you assumed that Luke was planning to continue in the same line of work as the previous 5 generations of his family – it just makes sense, right? However, that is not Luke’s story. As a […]
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Rain man
Written by James Christian There’s nothing more satisfying than having a property owner leave you in charge for a bit while they take off on holiday, and when they return you can honestly report that nothing is broken or lost, and that the livestock are healthy and fat, the dams are full and the grass […]
