It wasn't exactly selling ice to the Eskimos, but it took a move from her family farm at Blighty in NSW to, well, to a family farm at Lalbert, in Victoria, to convince Zara Macdonald she wanted to be, well, to be a farmer.

Having just finished Year 12, Zara had enrolled at Deakin University to do a Bachelor of Arts – and then her father heard about the National Farmers Federation's AgCAREERSTART gap-year program an