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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Māori
  • 62, Female
  • Member since 2014
  • organic orchardist/ horticulturist/ nurserywoman/conserva...
  • University degree
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

I'm a 57 year old woman, based in the Hokianga now (after 25 years organic farming near Whangarei) Non-smoker, animal lover, keen tramper, gardener, now work full time for the organic sector, member Rural Women NZ, Forest and Bird, Greenpeace, ETC group, NZ Tree Crops Association (NZCA), Amnesty International, Campaign Against Foreign Control Aotearoa

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meeting new people, info sharing and skills, mutual aid, enhance happiness/ delight, protect NZ's biosecurity and unique biodiversity and existing valuable GE Free status, enhance rural and political connections, avoiding commercial interchanges, green ethics , sustainable integrated management and primary production, seed and plant swap

Interests

Tramping (particularly Fiordland, south Westland, Kahurangi , Paparoas, Tai Tokerau, Te Urewera), gardening, botanizing, swimming in the sea and in crystalline rivers and streams, seed saving, growing organic fruit and veges, tree planting, feral pest suppression/ eradication, political, environmental, cooking up delicious feeds, anything Scottish, protecting NZ's biosecurity/ unique biodiversity, GE free natural, chairperson GE Free Tai Tokerau

  • animals
  • horses
  • books
  • dining
  • cooking
  • walking
  • boating
  • music
  • hiking
  • camping
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • rivers
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Etta James, Ruth Brown, Charles Brown, Whirimako Black, Mavis Staple, Miles Davis, Lena Horne, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Peter Hammill, Peter Gabriel, Sunhouse, John Lee Hooker, Battlefield Band, Ria Hall, Holly Smith, Fat Freddys Drop, Jack White, Saboteurs, the Dead Weather, BB King, Gladys Knight, Chaka Kahn, Beatles, John Lennon, YOKO, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Sex Pistols, PIL, Au Pairs, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, Pixies, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, kick arse rock n roll, Pibroch, piobaireachd / ceòl mòr, Stravinsky, Bartok, various classical. Favorite films impossible to list, foreign films, Russian, French, Polish, Czech, British, Scottish, Kiwi, Aussie, the lot

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Awesome level of Modesty ha ha

Teach, Learn, Share

yes!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good sense of humour, tramping secret ways knowledge, environmental/ political, sustainable farming tips, GE free mahi, Italian /Sicilian cooking, seed swapping

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Scotland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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