Farmers from Tasmania's north-west get their gear off for mental health awareness and the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
The Naked farmer idea began in Victoria in 2017 and has now inspired north-west Tasmanian farmers to produce a calendar that's true to the name.
"When there was a chance there to support mental health through The Naked Farmer, and also the Royal Flying Doctor Service, I jumped at the chance."It was actually in the middle of winter! But standing there naked, looking over all of Brittons Swamp, was a very centred feeling." Inspired by The Naked Farmer founder, Ben Brooksby, she appeared in the 2020 Naked Farmer calendar with 17 other farming friends at her family's organic dairy farm near Wynyard."We were all in the dairy, all in hot pink aprons, all women," Ms Frankcombe said.
Photographer Jo Lovell was commissioned, and the crowd-pleasing images led inevitably to the production of the 2022 calendar."It's helping change that culture that said it's somehow not OK to talk about your struggles." Royal Flying Doctor Service CEO, John Kirwan, says the funds raised by the calendar will help keep a mobile mental health unit on the road.
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