Outback Farm (ATOM Study Guide)

NB: This study guide includes both a full guide as well as a condensed Grab and Go version.

In the harsh Australian Outback, Danyelle and Anthony Haigh have given up life on the road as water drillers to offer their two young sons a more settled life. They’ve swapped water drilling for something they’ve never done before – farming!

Selling their home in Queensland, they’ve moved 3000 kilometres to a remote, ramshackle, 5000-acre farm, slap bang in the middle of Australia! Out there, it’s harsh desert country, where temperatures exceed forty degrees, sudden violent storms destroy crops and livestock and bush fires rage.

The dream for these first-time farmers is to make their fortune by filling a gap in the cattle industry market by growing hay in the desert. The debts are huge, and they’ve given themselves just two years to make it a success. Big dreams or a big fat nightmare?

Curriculum Links:

Watching Outback Farm in the classroom will benefit students in a range of learning situations in secondary schools. As a curriculum resource, Outback Farm expands and enriches students’ understanding of the concepts of self-sufficiency and sustainability and has key connections to multiple learning areas, with specific links to:

• Economics and Business
• Humanities, Social Sciences and Technologies
• Geography

Outback Farm is suitable viewing for students in Years 4–10.