Having grown up on a wheat, sheep and cattle farm in north-eastern Victoria, Kim La Spina says she was well acquainted with the vicissitudes of life on the land and always vowed she would never marry a farmer. In her wildest dreams, she imagined owning a shop.
Instead, she followed her passion for merchandise and sales to Melbourne, where she built a career in retail, married and had sons Jake and Christopher. But you never know what’s around the corner and, with her marriage over in 2000, Kim came home to
