CURRENT MISSION

Live simply and with integrity

ABOUT ME

Semi-nomadic ecologist/conservationist/food justice advocate/ukulele player/ drinker of tea. I like many things and many of those things involve fruit. Have just spent six months in the middle of nowhere (seriously) playing (working?) with numbats and bilbies and other endangered Australian animals. Interested in working towards integrating biodiversity conservation, food production,and social change... am still experimenting to figure out exactly what that means. Oh and I like bicycles a lot.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've dabbled in couchsurfing over the past few years, both as a guest and a host, and it's brought me much joy.

Interests

music, bicycles, community, art, birds, plants, guitar, permaculture, cooking, making clothes, growing veggies, nutrition, politics, ecology, social justice, biology, sustainable travel, languages, more music, literature, health, ecovillages, alternative lifestyles, literature, theatre... free stuff. knitting, crocheting... human rights, activism, building things...

• animals
• birds
• insects
• arts
• literature
• human rights
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• vegetarian
• vegan
• yoga
• clothing
• politics
• traveling
• knitting
• woodworking
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• martial arts
• biology
• ecology
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

a random selection for today: BOOKS Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, anything by Douglas Adams, One Hundred Years of Solitude, El Libro de los Abrazos, El Camino, Naked Came I, Beautiful art books, Where the Forest Meets the Sea, One Hungry Caterpillar, random books that I find wandering in uni library...old books, map books
MOVIES Amelie although getting over it, anything Spanish, eg Lucia y el Sexo, Todo Sobre mi Madre, Being John Malkovich, Dancer in the Dark, shorts, Baraka...
MUSIC I can't even begin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once saw a river start flowing after a drought. I stood on a rock and watched it swallowed up under my feet as the water rose. Saw all the insects and spiders surprised out from under the rocks. followed the trickling water for about and hour and wanted to keep following it all day.

Teach, Learn, Share

Ah there is so much I want to learn- anything to do with growing and making things from scratch- horticulture, permaculture, preserving, fermented foods, things about health and nutrition, building techniques, woodwork, biodynamics... Also musical and artistic inspiration and techniques, yoga, martial arts... Different ways of thinking, teaching, being...

I can teach some ukulele or guitar, jews harp, rounds... Share some of my random recipes (vegetarian sometimes vegan).. yoghurt making, sewing and embroidery, basic bike maintenance, bird identification, snippets about plants and food and ecology...

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Spain

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