The Drought Resilience Podcast
Holowiliena Station: Luke and Frances Frahn
"Having sheep off the property, that's what runs the place and has run the place forever, and you try doing a water run and there's no sheep out there...looking at empty paddocks, it's an eerie feeling. You can't see an end, it's a dark tunnel." Luke Frahn
"One of the things that drought takes away from you is the power of choice. There were times we couldn't go to School of the Air events because we literally couldn't afford the accommodation or the time away from work." Frances Frahn
In this episode, you’ll meet husband and wife Luke and Frances Frahn from Holowiliena Station, 40 kilometres east of Hawker in the upper north of South Australia.
Frances grew up on Holowiliena, a sheep station that's been run by her family for over a century. She’s 5th generation, taking over from her parents Jann and Richard Warwick.
Holowiliena is steeped in rich pastoral history, and it's this history that got Frances and Luke through one of the toughest droughts, by transforming it into an outback tourism experience.
The Frahn’s story details the devastation of drought through the years of 2018 through to 2021, what it did to the environment, to livestock, to one’s livelihood and state of mind.
Even though it was one of the toughest periods of their lives, they’ve come out the other end with renewed enthusiasm for managing the land and better equipped to tackle future droughts.
This podcast is supported by the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board as part of the Living Flinders initiative, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.
Links:
Northern and Yorke Landscape Board: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/ny
SA Arid Lands Landscape Board: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/saal/projects-and-partners/projects/building-pastoral-sustainability-program
National Landcare Program: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/landcare
Holowiliena Station: https://www.holowilienastation.com/
Talking Livestock: https://au.linkedin.com/in/deb-scammell-7839b06a
"Having sheep off the property, that's what runs the place and has run the place forever, and you try doing a water run and there's no sheep out there...looking at empty paddocks, it's an eerie feeling. You can't see an end, it's a dark tunnel." Luke Frahn
"One of the things that drought takes away from you is the power of choice. There were times we couldn't go to School of the Air events because we literally couldn't afford the accommodation or the time away from work." Frances Frahn
In this episode, you’ll meet husband and wife Luke and Frances Frahn from Holowiliena Station, 40 kilometres east of Hawker in the upper north of South Australia.
Frances grew up on Holowiliena, a sheep station that's been run by her family for over a century. She’s 5th generation, taking over from her parents Jann and Richard Warwick.
Holowiliena is steeped in rich pastoral history, and it's this history that got Frances and Luke through one of the toughest droughts, by transforming it into an outback tourism experience.
The Frahn’s story details the devastation of drought through the years of 2018 through to 2021, what it did to the environment, to livestock, to one’s livelihood and state of mind.
Even though it was one of the toughest periods of their lives, they’ve come out the other end with renewed enthusiasm for managing the land and better equipped to tackle future droughts.
This podcast is supported by the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board as part of the Living Flinders initiative, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.
Links:
Northern and Yorke Landscape Board: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/ny
SA Arid Lands Landscape Board: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/saal/projects-and-partners/projects/building-pastoral-sustainability-program
National Landcare Program: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/landcare
Holowiliena Station: https://www.holowilienastation.com/
Talking Livestock: https://au.linkedin.com/in/deb-scammell-7839b06a