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RNZ News
12-08-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
'Farmluencer' creates online community for female farmers
Anthea Rolfe. Photo: Supplied/Anthea Rolfe A Canterbury dairy farmer has created an online community for other females in farming to share her knowledge and connect with her peers. Anthea Rolfe left her corporate job in the aviation industry in Auckland 18 years ago to get into farming and hasn't looked back. She said she never knew it was even an option for her to farm and now milks 1250 cows, which she juggles with being a solo mum to her 12-year-old son. "I just know what it's like to juggle kids, home, farm, all that kind of stuff, and you end up putting yourself last. "And so I just thought, how can I create a community to help empower people, like women, and try and restore some of that sort of feel-good factor." Rolfe started the Females in Farming social media page a year ago and said it just exploded, gaining a following quickly. She's gone on to expand the brand with a practical and comfortable clothing range for on farm and a farming hub where she shares her knowledge from the industry. "There's really a need for this sort of thing here and it's just evolved into becoming the clothing range and the polished farmer hub," she said. "So yeah, it's been really good, really positive." Rolfe said her favourite part of being a dairy farmer is the cows - they're her favourite animal. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
12-08-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
'Farmfluencer' proves farming isn't just a boys club
Anthea Rolfe. Photo: Supplied/Anthea Rolfe A Canterbury dairy farmer has created an online community for other females in farming to share her knowledge and connect with her peers. Anthea Rolfe left her corporate job in the aviation industry in Auckland 18 years ago to get into farming and hasn't looked back. She said she never knew it was even an option for her to farm and now milks 1250 cows, which she juggles with being a solo mum to her 12-year-old son. "I just know what it's like to juggle kids, home, farm, all that kind of stuff, and you end up putting yourself last. "And so I just thought, how can I create a community to help empower people, like women, and try and restore some of that sort of feel-good factor." Rolfe started the Females in Farming social media page a year ago and said it just exploded, gaining a following quickly. She's gone on to expand the brand with a practical and comfortable clothing range for on farm and a farming hub where she shares her knowledge from the industry. "There's really a need for this sort of thing here and it's just evolved into becoming the clothing range and the polished farmer hub," she said. "So yeah, it's been really good, really positive." Rolfe said her favourite part of being a dairy farmer is the cows - they're her favourite animal. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Daily Mail
26-06-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The embarrassing symptom women are told is just 'part of being pregnant' was a sign of a silent killer. Thank god I listened to my gut or I might not be here
Sally Lewer, 36, from Melbourne, was overjoyed to be expecting her third child - a long-awaited IVF baby she was carrying as a solo mum by choice. Having already navigated two pregnancies, Sally felt confident and prepared for what lay ahead.
RNZ News
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
The challenges and triumphs of solo motherhood
There are a lot of books on parenting, but very few about what happens when you suddenly find yourself doing it on your own. This was the experience of Australian author and podcaster Rachel Maksimovic. She became a solo mum when she was just 20 weeks' pregnant - and among the financial and career challenges it brought - there were a host of other, unexpected things. That prompted her to start her podcast called Mothering on My Own. It's now morphed into a book of the same name, in which 30 women who have found themselves parenting on their own share their stories. Rachel says society still judges single mums negatively - and fails to recognise the fullness of their lives.
