Life on the Land

About Life on the Land

A Graziher podcast telling stories of women who live in rural, regional and remote Australia. Hear from farmers, mothers, photographers, business owners as well as teachers, nurses and doctors. Hear from women who have moved to the country and who have moved out of the country. Everyday women who have a story to tell. Join our hosts Emily Herbert and Sammie O'Brien, as they speak to women from all over Australia.

Publisher

Graziher

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Aug 2020

Latest episode

3 May 2026

Latest episodes

18 of 190 episodes have a transcript.

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   3 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Life on the Land with Ivy McGufficke

   Ivy McGufficke, fifth-generation farmer, shares her unique perspective on intergenerational wealth transfer in Australian agriculture as she navigates succession planning with her family.

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   26 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Life on the Land with Belinda Murphy

   Sammie O’Brien interviews Belinda Murphy about her community passion, sacrifices for her children's dreams, and the financial realities of supporting their aspirations.

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   19 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Life on the Land with Jenny Jenner

   Jenny Jenner's inspired consideration of sunflowers as a drought alternative for her Scenic Rim farm has cumulated in not just a commercial success, but a driving force behind cancer care support in Queensland's south-east. Jenny is the founder of the Kalbar Sunflower Festival, which welcomes 13,000 visitors over three days to Jenny’s farm every May in Queensland’s Scenic Rim. Here, guests wander through one million sunflowers grown across 10 hectares, enjoying scrumptious food and farm activities while raising vital funds for cancer care in south east Queensland. In this delightful conversation with Emily Herbert, Jenny talks passionately about her rural lifestyle, her partnership with husband Russell and what drove her to continue working the farm after his devestating death.

Inside a recent episode

Life on the Land with Ivy McGufficke

Published 3 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Fascinating insights to bring back to your own farming practice. So let's talk about the work that you're doing now in this succession space. Can you outline what you're hoping to achieve with the generational strategy? Yes, I'm currently a part of the team building the very exciting business unit for Boyce generational strategy, which is shifting succession from something families react to into something they design, making it strategy led succession. And so rather than waiting for a handover moment, we treat succession as a long term strategy that runs alongside the business. So we start with the people, their roles, values, capabilities and direction before we even talk about assets and the technical aspects that the other incredible people in our team at Boyce handle. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

56 ratings

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