Story Telling for Resilience — Episode 1
Story telling for resilience
Women, story telling, resilience, planning
What’s this episode about?
How do women in South West Queensland approach drought and other climate events? What do they do, and what advice do they have for producers in similar situations?
The next generation focuses on a holistic approach, instead of enjoying good seasons and managing drought when it happens.
Hear from story teller Annabelle Brayley, grazier Sally Kennedy about preparing for drought on farm and considering all diversification options.
Key takeaways
Women are building and expanding foundations that will ensure future resilience, not just in agriculture.
Participants are applying their lived experience to new ways of thinking, and practicing their businesses. Learning, and experimenting, and tweaking, to reduce the stress experienced in drought, and give them more certainty as they go forward.
Being prepared to take advantage of opportunities and existing resources can provide diversification opportunities.
Your hosts
Marlyn McInnerney leads the Women for Food and Fibre project, supported by the University of Southern Queensland’s Regional Economies Centre of Excellence and the SQNNSW Innovation Hub. Find Marlyn on LinkedIn.
Saleena Ham facilitates/coaches collaborative community building and co-design for all sorts of situations alongside diverse residents and stakeholders attempting to achieve something new. Find Saleena on LinkedIn.
While at the University of Southern Queensland’s Regional Economies Centre of Excellence, Fynn De Daunton worked on projects including regional drought planning, agribusiness strategies, working on resilience (with a focus on rural women), diversification and environmental offset markets. Find Fynn on LinkedIn.
The guests
Annabelle Brayley, from a property near Morven in Queensland, is the Story Co-ordinator for Girls Talking Ag (GTAg), a project in South West Queensland initiated by the UniSQ Rural Economies Centre of Excellence in partnership with Catholic Care and funded by the SQNNSW Innovation Hub. GTAg celebrates women in agriculture by encouraging and facilitating them to learn new ways to tell their stories.
Sally Kennedy is a grazier and dryland cropper near the town of Thallon, in Queensland’s Balonne Shire. The Kennedy family, however, took advantage of existing on-property assets and established Lanarium Retreat, a place where people can enjoy luxury and time without the distractions of mobile phones, televisions or a dishwasher. https://www.lanariumretreat.com.au/.
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