15/10/2026
Today is the International Day of Rural Women.
Spend a sale day at the saleyards and you’ll see it. Women on the catwalks and in the pens, on the books, behind the clipboard, and on the phone to clients before the first pen is sold. Then home to run a farm, a business, a household, a committee. Often all in the same week.
So much of what holds country communities together is done by women who would never call it remarkable. We would.
Over the next few slides are some of the women we’re lucky to work alongside, in our own team and in the businesses we partner with. Every one of them has a story worth knowing.
Happy International Day of Rural Women from all of us at Hamlet & Fields.
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Before Hamlet & Fields, there were pigs.
Fee started Paddock to Potager, a farmhouse experience and pastured pork producer, and founded the Toowoomba Farmers’ Market. Later came marketing at McGregor Machinery in Wangaratta, where she also helped run the service centre.
She didn’t come to agriculture through a family farm or a city agency. She came to it by doing the work: building regional businesses, working out the numbers, and learning what it takes to keep the doors open.
That’s the thinking behind Hamlet & Fields. Marketing for country businesses, from people who have had to make it pay themselves.
One thing she’ll always tell you: algorithms change, people don’t.
Yes, that’s AJ behind the mask. She’s a boilermaker by trade.
Anyone who has worked in a trade knows the job has to be done properly the first time, because someone is relying on it. AJ brings that same standard to everything she does here.
Bathurst born and bred, she spent time living out in Nyngan before coming home to the region, and these days lives rural, just out of town.
Now she runs Hamlet & Fields day to day: client coordination, projects, systems and budgets. If you’ve worked with us, you’ve probably heard from her. She’s across the detail and keeps things moving, all with a smile.
Ellie grew up on a property at Mullaley, and she was never one to watch from the fence. She loved the hands-on