Friday, 17 November 2023
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Conondale Girl to raise funds for Aussie Farmers doing it tough!!
What is it about the Sunshine Coast Hinterland? First it was the Travelling Jackaroo and now it is Jade Catania to raise funds for their favourite causes.
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17 year old girl from Conondale is setting herself the task of helping to raise funds for Aussie farmers who are doing it
Jade is very driven to create her own business based on the creation of a card game, selling it through the internet to raise funding to support her charity for farmers and their families.
Even when they get a good season and all is looking great for farmers, last minute hurdles such as the tornado like storm that tore through the Lockyer Valley near Gatton last Friday devastating crops is heart-breaking to farming families who rely on that one crop to get them through the coming season.
The idea came to Jade as a result of her early childhood, when she was 6 years old and with her family she travelled around Australia in an old school bus that was converted into a motorhome.
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In this one storm 10’s of millions of dollars of crops ready to harvest were decimated in minutes leaving farmers in despair. Seventeen year old Jade Catania from Conondale knows just too well the pressure that this devastation places on a family. Farming families throughout Australia all have similar stories to tell and so much of it is caused by matters out of their control.
On their trip they met a lot of people, many of whom were farmers. On occasions Jade and her family stayed with them on their properties. There she and her family learnt about the ups and downs of gardening and farming. Thus the seeds were planted about developing a card game based on what she had learnt about the dif culties that farmers faced. In one instance the farmer was “hit by a ood” and lost all of his crop, and he was just one of dozens in just that locality The game, Epic Garden is not only a fundraiser, but is a tool to teach young people just how much farmers do and just how much we all rely on them for our foods. To teach them that food does not just come
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