Meet Jenny

Star Sign: Scorpio

Fav Movie: Anything with Hugh Grant

Fav Colour: Green

Fav Holiday destination: Home – there is really no place like it!

Fav Music: Almost any – especially if I can dance to it.

Fav Quote: “Your job is bigger than the box you work in.”

Tell Us Something most people don't know about you: I am a real home body – I like to cook meals, clean and keep house. My focus in life is ‘Contentment’.

Describe your personality in three words: Serious, quirky, loyal.

With a professional career spanning nearly everything from packing mangoes, hospitality and bar work, to working alongside heads of cattle, and fencing on western properties and power stations, Jenny Cook has called Burdekin Growers Services home for 30 years, and she has never looked back.

Fueled by her passions stemming from her experience in a wide variety of industries, Jenny established Burdekin Growers Services alongside her mother, Eileen, in 1994, which continues to flourish under their leadership.

Jenny has always called Ayr home despite stints in Cloncurry and Mount Isa through her lifetime.

In fact, Jenny met her husband, Peter, in Cloncurry nearly 18 years ago, and she was quick to relocate him back to the Burdekin.

A through and through country girl, Jenny had spent over five seasons working in various positions in mango packing sheds, a number of years studying animal health and cattle husbandry and even started a fencing business with Peter in Mount Isa.

Jenny loves spending time outdoors, with her animals and on the land.

“I love horses, cattle and dogs,” she explained. “Most weekends are spent on or around horses. Work permitting, we try and get to as many camp drafts as possible.

“Peter and I spend most of our time together – sometimes relaxing, mostly working on one thing or another.”

Jenny also enjoys spending time with her great niece and nephew, watching them grow up and experience new things.

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