Bianca Tarrant will never forget watching helplessly as the Black Summer bushfires devastated Deep Creek, a quiet town near Casino in northern NSW.
Bianca Tarrant and David McGiveron lost ‘all hope’ when the Black Summer bushfires ripped through north-west NSW. Now, they run a multimillion-dollar meat subscription business.“It was the most horrific thing I have ever experienced after years of drought. I’ll never forget that wind and heat that took our last bit of hope with them.”
“It started out of pure necessity, we went through rough times after the drought, then the bushfire came through,” Ms Tarrant said. “We had to offload a lot of cows, we were really struggling to feed the animals that we still had.” In 1998, the average Australian consumed 40 kilograms of beef per year, now, it’s just over 18 kilograms. According to David Byard, chief executive of the Australian Beef Association, the meat has become too expensive, and inconsistent.
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