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Drought, fires, floods BUT ESILIENCE ENDURES

IT SEEMS like just yesterday, I was sharing in Earth Garden our experience of the 2019 bush fires. In the five years since my family and I started farming near Woodburn in the Northern Rivers of NSW, we have seen so much more change than I ever could have imagined.

The last flood in the region came a year after we bought the farm in 2017. They called it a one in a hundred-year flood, which devastated our local city of Lismore and left many surrounding areas struggling to recover. Our farm had some minor flooding during this

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