**This episode is part of a mini-series produced for the Gascoyne Catchment’s Group, who have kindly allowed me to share it with you. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did making it.**

In this episode, we speak to Lochy and Jane McTaggart, who called Bidgemia Station home for over four decades.

​They say they’ve lived a big life — and they mean it.

Together they endured the challenges of life in the bush - the ones that were part and parcel of working in agriculture, like drought and death, and those they could never have seen coming - a catastrophic flood which almost destroyed everything they spent their lives working for.

​Throughout it all, Lochy and Jane have raised a family, built a community, and created a legacy that runs strong today.

To start our conversation, I asked Lochy to take me back to where it all began.

Voices of the Gascoyne is a Gascoyne Catchments Group project, made possible through support from FRRR’s Helping Regional Communities Prepare for Drought Initiative, funded by the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.”

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