This former dentist started her business by sticking a pin on a map
Pam Brookâs family company, Brookfarm, produces gourmet macadamia products sold throughout Australia and exported to more than 12 countries. From the upcoming July issue of AFR Magazine.
Pam Brook: âIâd done everything in dentistry that Iâd wanted to do . I was like, whatâs the next thing? Whatâs the next adventure?âÂ
Paul Harris
Jun 16, 2021 â 9.10am
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In 1988, Pam Brook and her husband, Martin, bought a 39-hectare, lantana-infested former dairy farm in the Byron Bay hinterland, sight unseen. They and two other couples had decided at a slightly drunken dinner party that they all wanted to move together, out of suburban Melbourne, to somewhere in regional Australia to raise their families. They chose Byron after blindfolding one guest and getting her to stick a pin on a map.