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natural instinct

ON ANY GIVEN MORNING you’ll find Pam Brook and her husband, Martin, walking through the rainforest on their macadamia farm, enjoying the cool green foliage, the tinkling creek and the bird calls. “It’s a really peaceful place and it gives a great sense of calm and grounding,” says Pam of their property in McLeods Shoot in the NSW Northern Rivers region.

It’s the kind of nourishing practice that energises Pam, 67, for her busy life as an entrepreneur, farmer, health advocate and cookbook author. It’s also a gratifying

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