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Chloe Foster

Chloe Foster

Australian horticulturist, author of "The Rookie Gardener", and horticulture teacher at Melbourne Polytechnic; co-hosts the 3CR Gardening Show.

Jun 19, 2026

45:00
Yeah,
45:00
so then, yeah, a few months in there was a change.
45:05
The general manager left and went on to pursue some, you know, really successful businesses and I was placed in a, leadership role um very unofficial really probably hard for the team to grasp because I was the newbie and kind of in in terms of the ranks yeah wasn't very high up at all um but I I guess I sort of clicked um we had a it was a huge process and I won't go into it but um lot going on in the business at that time and through various interviews and conversations ended up sort of sparking some conversation with the regional manager at the time Tim Holder and he placed me in this leadership position and I kind of was the point of call where he would you know check in about how things were doing and da da da da and eventually I was made the acting general manager And then there was a big, you know, obviously process of they advertised the role and interviews and some internal applicants as well.
46:11
And eventually I secured the gig and became the new general manager.
46:16
And I think it was 100% that I had run my business.
46:21
It was a business acumen that they, even though I didn't have radio experience, they But, yeah, having that experience in my past running my own business, and I tell you what, you know, it's a very, very different thing being a small business owner to running, you know, a larger scale business.
46:40
I ran that first year on the smell of an oily rag because that's just how I did things.
49:01
about some of the big events that you've been running?
JennyHOST
2:50
being hit by vehicles? Are they drawn to the road surfaces? They are.
2:53
There are food sources and stuff along the roads, but because the food sources are dwindling out in the forest, they're looking for new food sources.
3:03
A lot of the time, they are along main roads, but they do take a long time to take off after they've been feeding.
3:10
They do come to the sides of the road to drink water from puddles and stuff during winter.
3:15
Unfortunately, people don't
JennyHOST
6:24
So what about when they, what about they have to learn how to find their own food, that sort of thing, I suppose, aren't they? Yeah, so that's a
6:31
really important part of our rehab program.
6:33
We have to be able to teach them, especially our young ones, how to eat native foods.

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