Earlier this month Tracee & I were invited to join the Cowra Show Society at their opening night cocktail party as guests of Emily Hill who was in the running to become Cowra’s 2025 Young Woman. Emily is my youngest daughter and she moved to the area at the beginning of this year after a two-year stint studying fashion in the UK followed by a year working in Sydney. Since moving to the area Em has thrown every bit of spare time she’s had into cattle work, horseriding and volunteering with us at Mid Lachlan Landcare – planting trees & joining our pig eradication activities.

While Em didn’t win the crown this time, she definitely did herself and our Landcare family proud, as did the other two young women, both of whom talked about their ambitions in agriculture and desire to help build stronger & more resilient rural communities.

Tracee & I both came away feeling like the future of our little slice of Landcare heaven will be in good hands with these driven and capable young women at the helm.