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Wanderland is a 4 and a bit acre piece of earth on Melukerdee country, in Southern lutruwita (Tasmania). For millennia her soil and landscape was looked after and helped to thrive through the work of Australia's first people.
Cleared of native vegetation at least 100 years ago, she has had the misfortune of being intensively agriculturally managed by colonisers. There are sections of her soil that have been infiltrated with DDT, lead and some strong anti-fungal toxins.
She has a tendency towards wildness. She is bordered by a creek-line. For the past 20 years or so, she has been pretty much left to her own devices. Her work is inspired by creating ecosystems, healing the effects of toxicity and being part of a whole. In 2017 she told Heather, Macca and Lux that they could stay, coexist with her and tell beautiful ecosystem stories together. Wanderland likes to work slowly, fast change is not how she goes about things. In this way, she teaches us patience and how to appreciate simplicity and the intricate complexities that enable simplicity to exist.
Hi, I'm Heather and I write this blog. My passions revolve around the development of ecosystem cosnciousness and viewing reality as a piece of art. I am a mother, a philosopher, a gardener, a radical homemaker, a permaculture educator and a writer.
Together, Macca and I, took off on a great big adventure with our then 6 month old daughter, Lux. We left our friends and family in Western Australia to purchase a piece of land outright in Southern Tasmania in 2017 (spoiler alert, it was Wanderland - though we didn't know her name yet).
And ever since I've been unravelling who I thought I was and how I thought the world works. I've been learning the languages of the land. I've been finding the humility of becoming a member of an ecosystem. I've been unpacking my privilege and working to destabilise systems of oppression and colonialism ever since.
And I believe that human beings have to remember that we are ecosystem members and I look to very diverse voices for learning, particularly first nations voices. I also belive we have much to learn from plants, animals and all other members of the more than human world, about how to coexist and reciprocate.
I completed my PDC in 2014 with Jeff Nugent and Claire Coleman at Fair Harvest Permaculture. In 2019 I did my Permaculture Teacher Training through Good Life Permaculture with Hannah Maloney and Brenna Quinlan.
I earn money by teaching permaculture, growing out plants for people. coordinating community events and helping people pull their growing dreams into reality via permaculture consultation. You can find out about my services here.
I completed my PDC in 2014 with Jeff Nugent and Claire Coleman at Fair Harvest Permaculture. In 2019 I did my Permaculture Teacher Training through Good Life Permaculture with Hannah Maloney and Brenna Quinlan.
I earn money by teaching permaculture, growing out plants for people. coordinating community events and helping people pull their growing dreams into reality via permaculture consultation. You can find out about my services here.
One of my favourite things to do is create new and interesting ways for people to experience alternative ways of telling stories, seeing the world and making meaning from it. To help people imagine for themselves other ways that out existence could look. In this vein, I coordinate the Cygnet Seed Library and grow seed for this seed sharing project, as a seed steward. Macca and I are also hoping to start a work-trade-CSA next year, as another experiential imagining project.
Macca.
Macca is an adrenaline junkie and a free spirit. After finishing high school, he got kicked out of an Engineering degree, going on to study Commerce, majoring in Economics and Commercial Law. He then proceeded to throw all his qualifications and conservative upbringing away by working on and off as a storeman and travelling for 4 years. He became a notable freeborder during this time and made the pro-team for freebording in 2011.
Sadly, later that year his close friend and pro-freebording team mate and freebord filmmaker, Sam, died in a freebording accident. It put an abrupt end to his freebording career. He no longer felt the same passion for freebording and he no longer had someone to bomb hills with.
Macca went on to move to Margaret River, with then girlfriend, Heather. He studied his PDC in 2014 with Jeff Nugent and Claire Coleman at Fair Harvest Permaculture. Since then he has moved to Tasmania and started a permaculture gardening and fruit tree pruning business. He is the one who finds a way to pull Heather's design ideas into reality. He is a creative guy who likes to think up new and interesting ways around things.
He is a father, a surfer, an artist, a permaculture consultant, a gardener and the kind of guy who gets called upon in times of need to lend a helping hand.
Lux and Sky.
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| Macca in the doorway to the bus we lived in for 2 years while building our house. |
Macca is an adrenaline junkie and a free spirit. After finishing high school, he got kicked out of an Engineering degree, going on to study Commerce, majoring in Economics and Commercial Law. He then proceeded to throw all his qualifications and conservative upbringing away by working on and off as a storeman and travelling for 4 years. He became a notable freeborder during this time and made the pro-team for freebording in 2011.
Sadly, later that year his close friend and pro-freebording team mate and freebord filmmaker, Sam, died in a freebording accident. It put an abrupt end to his freebording career. He no longer felt the same passion for freebording and he no longer had someone to bomb hills with.
Macca went on to move to Margaret River, with then girlfriend, Heather. He studied his PDC in 2014 with Jeff Nugent and Claire Coleman at Fair Harvest Permaculture. Since then he has moved to Tasmania and started a permaculture gardening and fruit tree pruning business. He is the one who finds a way to pull Heather's design ideas into reality. He is a creative guy who likes to think up new and interesting ways around things.
He is a father, a surfer, an artist, a permaculture consultant, a gardener and the kind of guy who gets called upon in times of need to lend a helping hand.
Lux and Sky.
Lux and Sky are our children. Lux is a tree climbing, tutu-wearing, kiwi-fruit loving 5 year old with a wild spirit and an eye for detail. Sky has only recently joined our family earthside. We can already tell that Sky deeply loves our family and brings a calming, awe filled energy to our days.
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