Southern New England Landcare is pleased to welcome Aggie Seiler to the team as the new Sustainable Agriculture Project Officer.

Aggie grew up across the north of Australia, having spent her early childhood in Kununurra, WA and school years in QLD. She spent many school holidays working on sheep and cattle properties in Western Queensland and Cape York, where her love of the land and its people became a core part of her identity.

Aggie left behind her Bachelor of Science at the University of Queensland to work on a remote corporate cattle station in the Northern Territory, while completing a Bachelor of Nursing degree.

Since then, she has nursed across the Top End in a variety of roles and later specialised in community mental health nursing. These adventures have taken her from Broome to Bamaga, and she has had the privilege of knowing the vast landscapes of the north and many of its communities.

In 2021 Aggie moved to the New England, with her husband and young family, to run a family-owned grazing enterprise west of Guyra. The change has triggered a return to study a Diploma of Agriculture, and a renewal of her love of the sciences as they apply to the soil, climate, ecosystems and sustainable food production. Aggie is thrilled about her new role as the Sustainable Agriculture Project Officer with Landcare, and the prospect of actively working in the community with her two greatest passions: the land and its people.

B. Nursing, Dip Agriculture.