Girls who wish to learn skills as diverse as jump-starting a tractor, moving stock, shooting, fencing and changing a tyre can do so at two hands-on Southern Girl Finishing School workshops in Kingston next week.
Laura Douglas leases a few hectares from Kingston Station and runs her agri-tourism Real Country venture, which she established in December 2016.
Now, she hosts functions and has two regular coach tours full of tourists on her books, and she provides the visitors with a farm show, animal interactions, clay bird shooting and archery, as well as teaching them whip cracking, shooting and how to test electric fences with grass.
Tourists also meet her Highland cattle, goats, pigs, alpaca and deer, and have a bacon and egg-pie lunch.
The inaugural day-long finishing school workshops are for girls aged 11 and older and will be held on July 16 and 17.