Brocklands Pty Ltd, specialises in assisting with management of imported plants and is an  accredited Nursery under the National Nursery Garden Industry Accreditation Scheme Australia.

Karen won a Nuffield Scholarship in 2014, enabling her to explore extensive cutting-edge research from the world’s key researchers.

Karen was named as the Tasmanian winner of the AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award for 2020. With this award came a $10,000 bursary which helped her important work in delivering improvements to the food production and cut flower sectors. Also this assisted her work to reduce plant input costs and producing disease-resistant and climate tolerant plants and crops that produce higher yields per hectare.

Karen also partners with others to teach plant tissue culture and assist with food security production systems in under-developed countries.