For Motherland's 50th episode, I catch up with Karen Brock, Tasmania's Agrifutures Rural Woman of the Year.

She's known for her incredible work in the horticulture industry as a plant tissue culture specialist, but her personal story as a woman and as a mother has never been told like this. It's a deep and dark look into the domestic violence she endured in her first marriage while living on the land, plus her incredible motherhood journey, and how she turned everything around.

This is her story.

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