Ravensthorpe AMOK Island
Read their Stories
Tim
Flanagan
“There were no successful farmers down here, really, without a good strong woman behind them. We were all pretty blessed, you know, that we had very strong, wonderful women. And that’s the backbone. They made the district.”
Sue Leighton
“Farming is up and down, mining comes and goes, but wildflowers are here forever. People in communities adapt like the wildflowers do. You have to adapt.”
Harold Lee
“I was a farmer up until I was fifty-one, and then I started chasing a different flock: I began studying for the priesthood.”
Belinda McHarg
“The idea came about when the floods came through and our bridges were down, around when FQM closed the mine. I thought, ‘what can I do to help people in this town?'”
Ben Wessling
“We went down the road and I couldn’t believe it: it was covering sixty to seventy metres of road, and the bridge had been washed away down the river!”
Tom Major
“Sport in all country regions has probably been on the decline for the last three decades. In Ravensthorpe we were originally a five-team footy comp, in the 1960s.”
Jules Belli
“My husband grew up here, went away to school and he’s come back to the farm. There are a lot of other second generation farmers that are doing the same thing.”
