Stephanie Trethewey thought she was prepared for life on the land as a mother. She’d grown up in the city and “cut her teeth” as a reporter in the television industry – and then fell in love with a farmer.
But when Trethewey and her husband, Sam, moved from inner-west Melbourne to rural Tasmania in July 2019 with their six-month-old son, Elliot, she says her mental health “really took a bit of a dive”.
