A Victorian sheep farming vlogger has set her sights on achieving one million subscribers.
YouTube star, 'Tara Farms', has seen her channel grow from just 30,000 subscribers in January 2023 to almost 200,000 at present.
Some of her videos were getting millions of views.
Tara, who wished to keep her full name and farm location anonymous due to her growing profile, farms full-time on a 7,000 ewe sheep farm in south-west Victoria.
She was gaining followers at a rate of 10,000 a month at present with 60,000 subscribing to her sheep-filled YouTube channel last November alone.
The young sheep farmer aimed to showcase the reality of farming sheep in Australia with her videos.
"I think people like to see where their food comes from," she said.
"A lot of people live in cities and urban areas where you can't just look and see thousands of acres of land.
"It's very foreign to a lot of people."
The sheep flock, which Tara managed with her dad, was predominantly Merino with some first cross Primelines.
The ewes lamb outdoors between the end of May and September.
She said she presented her videos as the equivalent of a "reality show" where she and her Kelpie, six-year-old Typo, brought viewers with her as they went about day to day sheep farming.
"I'm trying to show that this is what's happening on Australian farms because there is a lot of misinformation out there," she said.
Tara's farm videos were viewed by people from all over the world, with a strong subscriber following in the United States.
She also had views from unusual places like Iceland, Greenland and a few Ukrainian soldiers, watching her videos from the front line.
Tara said there were not many women, and particularly young women, making farming videos on YouTube.
"I get a lot of young girls messaging me about how they could get into the sector," she said.
"Until the mid-1990s here, women couldn't put down that they were farmers here on the census.
"There's quite a lot of females now."
The sheep farmer said she first started making YouTube videos in 2016 but that she nearly gave up when she stalled at 30,000 subscribers.
"I kind of lost interest and hit a wall," she said, adding that it was the video viewers themselves who encouraged her to share more farming content.
She said she liked the challenge of thinking about how she can make sheep farming educational for viewers, while carrying out day to day tasks on the farm.
"I like to think that every week, my long videos get better - as long as the sheep co-operate," she said.
