Richard Bootle and his partner, Ian Perkins, were working in large national law firms when they decided that a less traditional approach would be better for them.

‘[The firms] were great training institutions, but neither of us could see ourselves in a large corporation long term,’ says Bootle. 

‘My family has lived in Nyngan, in the central west of New South Wales for over 100 years, and after a lot of planning, we decided to move home to take over the family farm.

‘Farming has always been in my bones, but it wasn’t until I was nearly 30 that I decided that I wanted to be back out there,’ he says. 

‘Growing up I could see that farming was facing a lot of challenges: price pressure, co-opting of the supply chain by giant multinationals and climate change, just to name a few.’ 

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