Associate member of TerraCircle
Currently based in Timor-Leste.

Skills

• Project Manager
• Educator
• Technical Assistant

Experience

• Project Manager, Sri Lanka
• School and Urban Garden Mentor, Majuro, Republic of Marshall Islands
• Program Manager, 24 Carrot Gardens North and North West Tasmania
• Food Security/Waste Reduction Educator, Northern Suburbs Community Centre Launceston
• Environmental Education Mentor, West Launceston Primary School
• Community Garden Initiation Project, Launceston
• Horticulture Trainer/Permaculture Design, Youth Futures, launceston
• Food Security and Inclusive Learning Mentor, Empowerment of Women Support Group, Fiji

I have experience with a diverse range of food growing systems, including in-ground food growing, wicking beds, raised garden beds, hugelkultur, vertical garden systems and container growing systems.

Understanding soil as a living system and encouraging soil creation through compost-making is always my starting point for empowering people to grow their own food. I have been actively growing fresh fruit and vegetables for more than 30 years, in a diverse range of climates, including tropical vegetable growing and creating Food Forest systems in Fiji and PNG.

I am an avid gar-dener, at home, in community and in my work space, sharing learnings through formal community workshops, per-maculture design courses and school education programs for Kinder through to Grade 6. I provide fresh vegetables for our family, as well as sharing excess in community. 

I teach accredited Permaculture Design Certificate courses and skill-share workshops to maximize organic food pro-duction systems, reduce waste and increase energy efficiency, both locally in Tasmania and in Fiji. Also, I am a guest lecturer for Human Nutrition and Architecture and Design students at the University of Tasmania Inveresk Campus, both in tutorials and on-site in community gardens.

Designing and growing gardens that provide the majority of our food and fibre needs, as well as landscape function, aesthetics and therapeutic functions for property owners/clients, and learning centres, brings me much joy by imagining and creating positive solutions.

Achievements

• 2020 Waste Not Award – Northern Waste Man-agement Tasmania not for profit/community group category for Youth Environmental Educa-tion Program
• 2018 Tasmanian Community Achievement Award – Health achievement award Finalist for Northern Suburbs Community Food Justice Net-work, Tasmania 
• 2018 Human Rights Week Nominee for Perma-culture education programs in the Pacific and with migrant communities in Launceston, Tas. 
• 2010 Keep Australia Beautiful Sustainable Cities Award Launceston, Tas. 

Publications

• Flavours of Launceston Cookbook 2023 – Community Gardens Australia 
• Towards Zero Waste for Launceston – 2021 – Northern Waste Manage-ment Tas.
• Our School Garden – 2014 – A guide to organic school gardening in Fiji – contributing author – ACATA Trust Fiji
• Taste of Taveuni Cookbook – 2014 – Taveuni Empowerment of Women Support Group/Tei Tei Taveuni, Fiji
• Keep Taveuni Clean Booklet – 2014 – Taveuni Empowerment of Women Support Group/Tei Tei Taveunil, Fiji
• Compost Worms poster/factsheet – 2013 – Tei Tei Taveuni, Fiji Making Compost for Healthy Soils poster/factsheet – 2012 -Tei Tei Taveuni, Fiji
• Reflections of Tasmanian Woolgrowers – 2007 Land and Water Australia 
• The Nature of the Midlands – 2003 Midlands Bushweb, Northern Mid-lands Council, Longford, Tas.