Patricia Eats comes from a mixed enterprise farm on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia with cereal cropping, hay, floriculture, meat and wool sheep, beef and dairying enterprises.
After share-farming the family dairy for many years, Trish completed an Animal Science degree with Honours and raised her son in South Australia before moving to Queensland to take up PhD candidature.
Recognising academic misunderstanding of animal agriculture people, Trish’s PhD researches occupational wellbeing in subtropical dairy. A Graduate Certificate in Agricultural Health and Medicine Studies provided further evidence that current policy and practice is inadequate to protect health and wellbeing of best-fit workers and retain them long term.
Trish’s social enterprise will endeavour to develop, champion and socially elevate great animal agricultural workers, facilitating better capacity for their life-long wellbeing and joy through work.