Tasmania the food bowl: how do we get on the Table?
During Festivale, Launceston's annual food, wine, and entertainment event, a special forum was held to discuss some challenges facing Tasmanian food producers.
View Article'Women in Agriculture' gathering
A weekend conference will focus on how Tasmanian farmers have reversed their fortunes after the prolonged drought.
View ArticleCalls to increase Tas farming's competitiveness
Tasmania's Farmers and Graziers Association is campaigning for further moves to boost the state's farming industries at the Women in Agriculture conference in Hobart.
View ArticleNational voice for rural women
The National Rural Women's Coalition is to launch a new national network next week, to foster rural women's contribution to agriculture. Tasmanian farmer and chair of the National Rural Women's...
View ArticleTasmania's Rural Woman of 2011 announced
Bridgewater School Farm's Jackie Brown has been named Tasmania's Rural Woman of the Year for 2011. She'll use the opportunity and the $10,000 bursary from the Rural Industries Research and Development...
View ArticleStand up comedian tackles depression
Stand up comedian Annette Law is tackling one of the social taboo's, depression, at a rural woman's event in Tasmania this weekend. The event has been dubbed 'women on the move' and is one of three...
View ArticleAttractiveness of food in the flavour or the fragrance?
Here's a challenge, is it flavour that attracts you to food or fragrance? Or are they so closely connected that it's impossible to say? Dr Hazel MacTavish-West is a plant scientist with expertise in...
View ArticleRural women on International Women's Day
Telling the stories of rural women, on International Women's Day, says as much about changes to farming and rural communities, as it does about women. Nancy Parsons was a city girl, when she moved to...
View ArticleRural Woman award inspiration for further aquaculture research
Each year we meet those women who've made a significant impact in their area of our rural and regional communities...and are recognised for that contribution in being nominated for the Rural Woman of...
View ArticleConcerns for future financial counselling funding
The Rural Financial Counselling Service is seriously concerned its Federal Government funding will not be renewed past June. The Tasmanian branch of the RFCS says there's a risk that because the...
View ArticleResearchers embark on overdue project on rural women's health
We know that people who live in rural areas have poorer health than their city counterparts, and it's a fact that rural women are less active than city women. But why is this? Researchers at the...
View ArticleOpening the Vault
As part of Heritage Tasmania's Open Doors program, Grove Heritage Nursery in the Huon Valley is inviting the public to have a wander around their working orchard. Packed with hundreds of varieties of...
View ArticleTasmanian Rural Woman of the Year jets off
Tasmania's Rural Woman of the Year for 2011, Jackie Brown is probably getting used to living out of a suitcase. The teacher from the Bridgewater High School Farm has just spent a week in Canberra at...
View ArticleTragedy makes a small island think reflect on farm safety
Bruny island has seen its fair share of tragedy on farms, in the past ten years the community has lost two people in farming related accidents.
View ArticleTragedy makes a small island think reflect on farm safety
Bruny island has seen its fair share of tragedy on farms, in the past ten years the community has lost two people in farming related accidents.
View ArticleCWA Zumba
The incoming president of Tasmania's CWA wants the organisation to take a greater role as an advocate for healthy living for the elderly, and Zumba classes are part of her strategy.
View ArticleTimber industry women form support network
Women involved in the forest industry will now have a network to support them following a meeting in Canberra.
View ArticleDeath, transgender lifestyles and grumpy goats: author talks about life on a...
It's not uncommon for those of us in the city to dream of hightailing it to the country.
View ArticleChildcare centres in country areas to be monitored closely
The future of childcare centres in country areas will be closely monitored by the group Early Childhood Australia after the introduction this week of new standards for childcare providers.
View ArticleAgfest says no to state government funding
The organisers of Tasmania's biggest agricultural festival say they have no intention of applying for government funding to help host future events.
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