Testimonials

Hi Kim and Phillip,

I think you are providing a wonderful service to the farming community throughout Australia, particulary those like us who do not have family on the property, and we were delighted to use it last year.

We had six weeks overseas and had a wonderful couple (from Deloraine in Tasmania) look after our property, cattle, dog, chooks, garden and home. Apart from that, we have made another friend. We went to Tasmania last month and visited them at their property and spent some great time with them.

We did not use the farm sitting service for this three weeks away, just had a local feeding and checking our cattle, dog in kennels, garden gone to the dogs, home freezing to return to. We would have liked to have Marg and Peter here, but we wanted to visit them!

Next year we will have them again - we have already asked them.

Keep up the good work,

Kind regards,

Merilyn Paxton
"Mootatunga"
Bagdad Road Mount Benson SA

Hi Kim
I just wanted to give you some feedback on our experience of Farmsitters
Australia, We are just back from a three month trip seeing some of Aust.
Trip was really great. We partly attribute our great holiday to knowing that
all was well at home. Bruce farmsat for us and he was simply
fantastic. The house and garden were immaculate on our return and Bruce more
than adequately looked after the farm and took on any jobs that we threw at
him, in our absence. He also participated in the local community (played
tennis, went to some local functions and helped out at a hay drive).

Farmsitters Australia gave us a great opportunity to seek a suitable person
to mind our farm so that we could pursue a dream of touring Australia with
our children. Because of that I believe that Farmsitters Australia plays a
vital role in assisting with the health and wellbeing of farm families.
Thankyou so much for developing the concept. You are doing really filling an
important need in rural Australia.

Regards and our sincerest thanks Penny and Andrew Wall

Dear Kim and Phillip,

   Since becoming a member of Farm Sitters we have had many inquires to farm sit, which makes your website well worthwhile for both farmers and sitters.

   Last year we spent 6months at a station near Nyngan NSW and a short time at a property near Kilcoy, Qld.
We are now back in N.S.W. at Nyngan until mid November after which time we hope to find another place somewhere new in Australia.

   We have enjoyed farm sitting and have met some lovely people making it hard to move on, but as we want to enjoy more parts of Australia and experience other farming areas.
   As we enjoy photography, we have photographed the wildlife and scenery on their property , which the property owners have enjoyed as much as we have as they now have evidence of the wildlife that makes their home on their property.   On the Nyngan station we have photographed and catalogued 115 different bird species.
   Thanks to your site we are now enjoying a new lifestyle.

   Regards
   Neil and Linda Zoglauer   (Farm Sitters)