2,000+ Properties Across Australia

A chance to try
the greener grass.

In the field. Alongside people who love what they do. With over 2,000 working properties across every state and territory, your greener grass is closer than you think.

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2,000+Working properties nationwide
3.4MWhite-collar roles at automation risk
$18BAnnual land-sector skills shortage
ZeroPremium land-based transition programmes — until now

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Working land across the country — right now.

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Find Your Away

Where are you, and what calls to you?

Tell us where you're based, then tap the images that pull at you. We'll match you with working properties nearby doing exactly that kind of work.

Step 1 — Where are you based?
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Step 2 — What calls to you? Tap everything that resonates.
Soil work
Soil & Land
Horticulture
Horticulture
Forestry
Forestry
Livestock
Livestock
Market garden
Market Garden
Regenerative farming
Regenerative
Native vegetation
Native Vegetation
Orchard
Orchard & Fruit
Coastal farming
Coastal Farming
Outback station
Outback Station
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Hunter Valley, NSW
★ 4.9
Available Jun
Ironbark Ridge
Hunter Valley, NSW · 2h from Sydney
Regenerative Livestock Soil
$2,200 / 4 nights
Accommodation, meals & practitioner time included
Hawkesbury, NSW
★ 4.8
Available May
Redgum Market Gardens
Hawkesbury, NSW · 1.5h from Sydney
Market Garden Horticulture
$1,900 / 4 nights
Accommodation, meals & practitioner time included
Southern Highlands, NSW
★ 5.0
Available Jul
Tablelands Forestry Co.
Southern Highlands, NSW · 2h from Sydney
Forestry Native Veg
$2,400 / 5 nights
Accommodation, meals & practitioner time included
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Australian farmland
Hands in soil
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Properties
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The Moment

Wherever you are.
The land is waiting.

Automation and AI are reshaping white-collar work faster than most people are ready for. The accountants, analysts, administrators and project managers who built careers in knowledge work are finding the ground shifting beneath them.

Away operates across a network of over 2,000 working properties in every state and territory — farms, forestry operations, horticultural enterprises and land restoration projects. Wherever you live, there is an Away near you.

"A chance to try the greener grass — in the field, alongside people who love what they do. No pressure. No commitment. Just real work, real land, and the space to find out."

The Away Programme

Two stages.
One clear path.

Not a training course. Not a holiday. A carefully designed experience that answers the question you're actually asking.

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Stage One — Discovery
The Working Stay
3–5 Days · At a property near you

A premium immersive experience. Stay on a working property, eat well, sleep well, and spend your days working alongside practitioners in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.

  • Live and work alongside skilled practitioners
  • Three disciplines: land & soil, food growing, native vegetation
  • Shared meals and honest evening conversations
  • Premium cabin accommodation included
  • No agenda. No pressure. Just real experience.
From
$1,800
4 nights · all-inclusive · self-funded or employer-funded
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Stage Two — Transition
The Deeper Programme
4–8 Weeks · Matched to your region

For participants who complete the Working Stay and want to go further. Extended placements across our national network — matched to your region, your interests and your goals.

  • Extended placements with farms and forestry operations
  • Mentorship from working practitioners
  • Personal transition framework
  • Connections to employment, training and land acquisition
  • Fundable by employers, government or self
From
$8,500
4–8 weeks · government & employer funding available

What You'll Do

Three disciplines.
All rooted in land.

Each discipline is led by a practitioner who has chosen this life deliberately. You work alongside them — not as a tourist, but as someone genuinely trying something.

Land and Soil
Land & Soil
Regenerative agriculture, soil health, land management and the fundamentals of working with the earth.
Food Growing
Food Growing
Market gardening, horticulture, seasonal growing and the rhythms of producing food from the ground up.
Native Vegetation
Native Vegetation
Forestry, bush regeneration, native planting and stewardship of Australia's extraordinary natural landscapes.

Why This Works

People change when they feel something shift.

Career coaching and retraining programmes share a structural weakness: they operate entirely in the abstract. A week working with soil, tools and people who love what they do produces insight no workshop can replicate.

75%

Higher knowledge retention

Experiential learning vs. classroom instruction — NTL Institute

3.2×

More likely to complete transition

Mid-career professionals who trial careers physically — Harvard Business Review

21%

Reduction in cortisol

Nature exposure improves decision-making clarity — University of Michigan

Working the land
Practitioner at work
40–60%
Reduction in transition
anxiety — BMJ, 2023

For Employers

Your people deserve more than a standard redundancy package.

Companies deploying AI-driven restructuring face real pressure to support departing staff in ways that matter. Away is a genuine alternative to conventional outplacement — more human, more memorable, and increasingly requested by employees directly.

Traditional Outplacement
$5–10K
per head · abstract · low satisfaction
Away Corporate Cohort
$4,500–6,500
per head · immersive · human
Undercuts & outperforms
Enquire About a Pilot Cohort
8
Cohorts available
per property per year
6
Participants per cohort —
small by design

Target sectors: financial services, professional services, media and government — the industries facing the highest white-collar displacement rates.

Financial Services
Legal
Government
Media
Technology
Professional Services

The away.au Flywheel

A self-reinforcing loop competitors cannot replicate.

1
away.au builds audience
A trusted content platform documenting land-based lives across Australia. Pre-qualified participants already asking the right question.
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Away offers a first step
A structured, supported, premium entry point. The Working Stay turns curiosity into lived experience.
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3
Participants become content
Alumni stories are the most credible marketing away.au can produce. Real people, real transitions, real outcomes.
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4
Content attracts cohorts
That content brings the next wave of curious, motivated participants — and reduces customer acquisition cost over time.

From Past Participants

What it actually feels like.

"I'd been in financial services for eighteen years. I thought I needed another course. What I actually needed was a week with my hands in the soil. Away gave me that — and something shifted that no webinar ever could."

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Sarah M.
Former Senior Analyst · Now market gardener, Hunter Valley

"My company offered this as part of my redundancy package. I went in sceptical. By day three I knew I was done with the office. By month six I was working on a regenerative farm. I'm not exaggerating."

J
James T.
Former Project Manager · Stage 2 graduate

"The evenings were as important as the days. Sitting around a table with people who had made the switch — not selling it, just living it — was the thing that finally made it feel real and possible."

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Lisa K.
Former Marketing Director · Currently in Stage 2

2,000+ Properties · Every State & Territory

The greener grass
is waiting.

Find your nearest Away property and apply for the next Working Stay. Cohorts are small by design — six people, five days, one question answered.

Find Your Away Get in Touch

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