2008
Thank you Lee and Lucy!
Here we are! John and I with the very generous and inspirational Australian of the Year, Lee Kernaghan in the Woodsdale Footy Clubrooms last weekend.
Thanks to our friend Lucy and her husband, Darren Byers (our shearer!), they invited Brian Egan from Aussie Helpers and Lee K. to bring some drought relief to the farmers of the Southern Midlands of Tasmania.
Lee sung a few songs and spent hours talking to locals.
I was also able to deliver a ‘love letter’ to Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon regarding the impact of tree plantations and drought in our district and outline some positive action he can take to help local community recover from these distressing and depressing days that we find ourselves in.
Lee truly is a generous, wonderful person and a great ambassador for all of us in rural Australia.
Let’s hope the pollies sit up and take some notice and put some policy in place so we farmers can keep supplying good clean food to our nation.
We can’t eat bloody gum trees!
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Comments (One Response)
Have just browsed your website for the first time, following reading The Rouseabout. Really enjoyed the book. A number of parallels in your story to my own life. Am interested to hear that Tassie is experiencing drought, as we are here in NZ. Many areas are affected. Little or no rain since last October, and none forecast until May. Many farmers are in dire straights. We farm in a usually ‘summer safe’ area and are far better off than many,but still really dry, which just adds to the usual challenges. Tassie must be under the same La Nina weather as we are. Nothing like it for 100 years. We also have lost a lot of land to plantations – pinus radiata. We have one on our boundary & after 10 years have a real weed problem. We also enjoy our dogs and horse, it comes hand in hand with farming life don’t you think. Will be following your site with interest in the future.
Kind regards,
Caroline Davidson
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