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Liv Casben

Training farm growing new crop of market garden mavens

Tanya Senior swapped life as a public servant for getting her hands dirty in a market garden. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Former public servant Tanya Senior has found purpose and meaning after quitting the "hamster wheel" for a new life as a market gardener.

The 49-year-old took time off during the COVID-19 pandemic to "recalibrate" after 15 years as an executive, and began volunteering at a local farmers market in southern NSW. "I want to do something that is purposeful to me and meaningful," the sea-changer told AAP from the patch of land she now farms at Moruya on the state's south coast with her business partner Shani Keane.

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