Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Cynthia – Caretaker/Domestic, Springvale Station. Hi my name is Cynthia and together with my husband Peter we have been privileged to have spent the past three months living and working at Springvale Station. Peter and Cynthia. We had been traveling around Australia for nine months and were on our journey […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Luke McEwan – Station Hand, Yeeda Pastoral. Hi my name is Luke McEwan and I am another Kiwi that has jumped the ditch. Not permanently might I add and still strongly backing anybody from New Zealand that takes on an Australian. The reason I find myself in the lion’s den […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Emilly Struckel – Girl Friday, Yeeda Station. Hi all, Emilly Struckel from Yeeda Station here. We are a family of five who moved from Queensland to Western Australia to be part of the Yeeda team last year. We started off based at Colourstone where Rowan (hubby) was a rouseabout from […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Minna Burton – Owner, Yeeda Pastoral. G’day my name is Minna Burton and I’m from Yeeda Pastoral. My parents Jack and Vicki Burton are the owners of Yeeda and brought me and my brother William up on the land and taught us to love it as much as they do. […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Vicki Burton – Owner, Yeeda Pastoral. Hi Everyone. Yeeda is back for 2015, my update is coming to you from Kilto Station and in the following days you will read some great blogs from the Yeeda team around the traps. Well the year has been ‘full on’ as always, we […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Keith – Cook, Yeeda Pastoral Company. Keith, the Kilto Station Cook. What a challenging work experience, you step in as a station cook at Kilto Station which is part of the large Yeeda Pastoral Co’s group of cattle stations spread out from Broome in the North West Kimberley to Springvale […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Kim – Station Hand, Yeeda Pastoral Company. My name is Kim and I am 21 and from Germany. I started working out at Springvale last year in March. I got the job from Gumtree and had never worked on a station before. It is so different for a backpacker to […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Emma – Station Hand, Yeeda Pastoral Company. Born and bred in the Snowy Mountain Region of New South Wales, I have always been partial to mountains. Living and working in the Canadian Rockies, growing up in the foothills of the Snowy’s and riding on horseback through some of the most […]
Host: Springvale Station (Yeeda Pastoral Co.) Written by Aelwynn – Cook, Yeeda Pastoral Company. Back home in Canada if you ask people whether they know what mustering is, most people will raise their eyebrows and not know how to answer. I was the same about a year and a half ago, before I was hired at […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Kim – Marketing/Development, Yeeda Pastoral Company. Well it’s been a crazy eight months since Yeeda hosted our first week on Central Station and I can’t believe how quickly that time has passed! My name is Kim and I work in the Yeeda office in Broome. We are really excited to […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. The Yeeda office is based in Broome and it is from this busy little hub that we run the books of the separate companies that make up the Yeeda group. The office team is made up of Vicki, Viv, Kim, Georgia, and […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. In November last year we opened our first Yeeda Australian Rangeland Meat shop in Broome. It has had fantastic support from locals since day one and we are really happy with how it has taken off. A day in the shop begins […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. Yeeda Pastoral Company purchased Springvale Aggregation from E G Greens (Harvey Beef) in 2003. Springvale was once owned by the legendary stockman Tom Quilty, from 1948 to 1978, Tom and his wife Olive built the homestead as it is today. These days […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. Kilto is a hive of activity; it is the Yeeda Pastoral hub. On Kilto we have our export accredited yard, we grow hay under centre pivot irrigators, it is our truck depot, and our main workshop is run from here. Irrigation Today […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. Yeeda Station has great history, it was the first pastoral lease settled in the Kimberley in 1881. Yeeda is approx. 1 million acres and has the mighty Fitzroy River running through it, so has great flood plain country. The homestead is 50km […]
