Postcards from the Bush with Robin McConchie
Postcards from the Bush with Robin McConchie
Robin McConchie is a professional story teller and a well known voice on the ABC across rural Australia. Postcards is about the nuts and bolts of life in the bush. Life can be tough but farmers and regional businesses are resilient and entrepreneurial. They care for their livestock, the land and their community. what lesson and insights can we gain from bush business and their communities.Social links:
#keepthetraditionalive streetart Porto
Congratulations to young Spanish illustrator and artist Constanca Duarte, @a_inconstancia for completing her street-art collection painted on electrical boxes in Porto. Artists are brightening up the streets of Porto with their work. Constanca fears the character of Porto is being lost due to pre…
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Walking the Camino with man’s best friends
Dick and Nicola from Holland are walking the Portuguese Coastal Camino with their best mates, four dogs. They started the 270km pilgrimage with three pooches but adopted the fourth after it was hit by a car and left for dead. Walking the Camino with dogs takes planning and patience, this team has b…
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Camino companions-Patricia,occupational therapist
Walking the Portuguese Camino gives you plenty of time to think, get fit and chat with people from all over the world. It was rainy and we were dodging a bit of traffic on the narrow roads when I met Patricia an Occupational Therapist from Lisbon. She works with dementia and Alziemer’s disease clie…
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Camino Companions Sandee Peterson USA
Sandee Peterson is walking the Camino Portuguese, a 270km trek from Porto to Santiago de Compostela. Sandee and her partner are keen volunteers and one project that has taken them around the world is the Fuller Centre for Housing, providing a hand-Up not a hand-out to those in need. Volunteers buil…
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#keepthetraditionalive wool in Portugal
Sheep and wool production are part of Portugal’s tradition. Burel is keeping the tradition alive, training and supporting young people to work in the industry. Burel wool fashion, bedding, home decor and even shoes are known worldwide for quality and elegance.
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Carolina and Portuguese guitars- Lisbon
Music is a part of the Portuguese lifestyle. Lisbon in Portugal is the home of Fado, a musical genre traced to the 1820s. Traditionally Fado is characterised by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor, infused with a sentiment of resignation or longing. Fado performan…
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Matilde-Comur Sardines- Lisbon
Fishing is big business in Portugal. Over the centuries it has been a mainstay of the economy. Today the Comur company, based in Lisbon is preserving the tradition, and pulling the crowds with its range of tinned fish. You can buy all sorts of flavours of sardine, shrimp, tuna, mackerel and many mo…
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Qld Agrifutures Rural Women's Award finalist Emma Black
Co-founder of Back Box Co Emma Black says cattle producers can make better decisions and run their farms more profitably and sustainably if they take the mystery out of cattle statistics. The Black Box cloud-based service ingests data collected along the supply chain, analyses it and delivers pro…
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Qld AgriFutures Rural Women's Award finalist Kate Lamason
Qld AgriFutures Rural Women's Award finalist Kate Lamason founded Cairns-based Little Tuna, which cans wild-caught Australian tuna in olive oil—Kate is passionate about the seafood industry and value-adding. If you want to eat Aussie tuna, try Little Tuna.
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Qld AgriFutures Rural Women's Award finalist Louise Noble
Louise Noble, a Qld Agrifutures Rural Women's Award finalist, founded the Mulberry Project. Based in Toowoomba, The Mulberry Project is a social enterprise project building industry partnerships to upskill and connect disadvantaged job seekers to agricultural employment.
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