** Episode Sponsor: Cheeky Mac Productions - do the 1000 Rural Women Survey!

We’re full of good ideas here in the country. So how do you access the funds and the people to make it happen?

It’s important for community projects and local businesses to come from the bottom up. It’s the people on the ground who know what’s actually needed and how to best deliver it. But so many grants and programs are top-down.

In this episode we hear from two women who are making big ideas happen, using grassroots methods.

Hear from:

Angie Armstrong - Owner of Callubri Station, a commercial farm and agritourism business in Buddabadah, NSW.

Natalie Egleton– CEO of Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR), based in Maldon, VIC.

Angie Armstrong shares her journey of setting up an agritourism business in central West NSW, including the challenges of getting tourists to travel further than Dubbo. She explains how she tapped into tourism bodies to find support and her approach to remaining innovative in business.

Natalie Egleton explains how FRRR supports community-led initiatives and the types of projects the philanthropic organisation funds.

We hope this episode will help you to get your next big idea off the ground!

Thank you to Cheeky Mac Productions for sponsoring this episode. Make sure you help them out by doing the 1000 Rural Women Survey!

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**Sponsored by the Victorian Women’s Trust - Check out Rural Women Online, free digital skills platform.

There’s this idea that if you want to make it in film, you need to move to the city. But is that really true?

In this episode, we meet Jospehine Croft. She’s a film producer and actor, based in Melbourne, but is part of a movement that’s making film more accessible to women. This includes job sharing on film sets, shorter hours and looking after the mental health of film crews.

Josephine, who runs Tenacious Stories, also talks about opportunities for rural women who want to work in film. In fact, part of her most recent production, “The Returned” has been filmed in Wannon, near Hamilton in western Victoria.

She also discusses the challenges facing the Australian film industry, and remembers what it was like being a young actor in the 1990s and early 2000s (this includes her role as an angsty teenager in Neighbours who burnt down Lou Carpenter’s bus!)

**Thank you to the Victorian Women’s Trust for sponsoring this episode. They are running free digital workshops in Yackandandah 11 - 14 September. Head to Rural Women Online to register!

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Is parenting on a farm different to parenting in the city? What are our farm kids missing out on... and do the benefits of farm life out way the drawbacks?

In this bonus episode we welcome the hosts of The Barnyard Language podcast, which is an American podcast, focused on 'real talk about running farms and raising families.' But don't be fooled into thinking they are cutesy farm ladies - these are a wickedly funny and slightly sarcastic pair.

Arlene Hunter is a dairy farmer from Ontario, Canada and Caite Palmer is a sheep/beef producer from Iowa in the U S.

While there are obvious differences between Australia, Canada and the US... when it comes to the rollercoaster of raising kids in remote areas, we have A LOT in common.

We talk about everything from postnatal depression and the baby years. Right up to succession planning and raising kids that are proficient in "city", as much as they are in "farm".

This is a Rural Podcasting Co production.

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