Robyn Verrall’s shift to a career in farming started as a love story, but it’s turned into a fierce passion for increasing food affordability in rural Australia with sustainable agriculture.
Before moving to the South Australian farm where she now lives and works, Verrall was living in Adelaide as a single mum and nurse. She married a farmer after connecting with him at a high school 20th reunion and thus began the beginning of her journey towards agriculture.
“It took me two years after we got married to do it [move from Adelaide to the farm]. I said I’d give it a go. A fish out of water,” she says. “I would be like the sterilised bull trying to make my presence felt. It was overwhelming.”
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