Tamworth sends Queens of Country Music to Gore, New Zealand; Inverell welcomes exchange students from Tulare, USA; Lane Cove has poured thousands of drought-help dollars into Gunnedah.

And now Liverpool Plains Shire hopes to help feed Blacktown.

That's if a small but exciting project comes to fruition: supplying goat meat from the shire to the city, where the demographics could make it an ideal market.

Liverpool Plains Shire councillor Doug Hawkins said the idea sprang from trying to "promote as much business from the Liverpool Plains into Blacktown as I can".

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"I treat Blacktown like our China ... We stand to gain a lot of trade," he said.

Mr Hawkins has been working to facilitate a relationship between Spring Ridge goat producers Morgan Richards and Zac Moss and possible buyers in Blacktown.

"Blacktown is the fastest-growing city in Australia and there's a huge migrant population there we can tap into - and I think our survival depends on that," he said.

"If this young couple are successful, I'll be happy ... it will be just another successful business in the Liverpool Plains."

After a couple of visits from Liverpool Plains to Blacktown and vice versa, hopes are high, but there's more work to be done.

Miss Richards said: "It would be great to get something down there; we've just got to get our foot in the door first. It is really, really early days."

She and Mr Moss both came off small beef cattle farms and are now trying to make their own start in livestock production. Goats seemed like a good choice due to their relative affordability and manageability.

"They're browsers; they forage but don't look for grass all the time, and 75 per cent of their diet is woody weeds," she said.

Both working as farmhands, they liked what they found at Spring Ridge: "We liked the area and everyone was friendly."

They bought their own place in 2017, but it had been "a slow process" since then.

That's partly because of the drought, but also because "fencing was our biggest issue with goats ... we've been slowly poking away at it".

They've built up their herd to more than 100 kids, billies and nannies - a mixture of boer, dairy-cross and rangeland goats.

"Our main goal is to buy more land and to be able to live off of one income. For us to do that, we'd need probably over 300 breeders," Miss Richards said.

With seasonal work tightening up due to the prolonged drought, the couple both have to travel about 90 minutes away for their jobs.

And with still much to do at home, they're in for a lot of hard work, but Miss Richards said it was all worth it.

"It's just the lifestyle - it's a great lifestyle being outdoors," she said.

"It's not for everyone, but it's for some people - just the freedom you have."