Beauty in the beast
Nov 24, 2021
4 minutes
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE
PHOTOGRAPHY SARAH PEARSON
James Pearson candidly admits that when he first started converting his beef cattle business to organics, it was something he almost confessed to in a whisper. “I’m pretty sure most people expected me to have a bushy beard and long hair in a ponytail,” he says. “That was back in the early 2000s, but these days the appreciation of organics is much more mainstream and people are much more aware that you are what you eat. I read recently that nine million Australians include organics in their regular shop.”
James and his wife, Sarah, live on Boorara station north of Blackall in central-western Queensland. Their oldest
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