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Australia: Teacher changes profession to her true love - flowers

More than a decade of teaching has taught Natalie Brock a thing or two, but the biggest life lesson has been to "do something you love". Working as a wellbeing leader meant most days were spent looking after students and staff, until one day she realized she hadn't been looking after herself.

"I thought to myself, 'If I'm going to stop teaching and I've got another 10 years of work ahead of me, I want to be doing something that I really love'."

Ms Brock's first memories of flowers began when she was five years old, traipsing through her grandma's garden."I remember wandering around with her while she explained which spring bulbs were coming out of the ground," she says. "My nana had the most beautiful garden, as many in that generation did."

Fifty years on, she tends to her own farm nestled among 60 hectares of flourishing vineyards in the South Australian Riverland town of Monash.

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