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Urgent action is required to address the undersupply of health professionals in regional, rural and remote Australia. The nursing and allied health fields have received minimal attention in the rural health workforce literature in comparison to medicine. Most attention has focused on student placements and strategies to retain metro-origin rural health professionals in rural communities. The notion of ‘home grown training’, where university health courses are delivered in non-metropolitan areas to educate and recruit health professionals from rural communities, is steadily gaining recognition as a sustainable workforce approach. However, this approach is more prominent in medicine and has generally targeted rural school-leaver university students. A ‘grow your own’ approach to addressing nursing and allied health workforce shortages could harness the potential of mature-aged people embedded in …