francine chanover 's Profile
Details
- Joined: 17/10/2011
- Last Updated: 17/10/2011
- Location: gatton, qld, Australia
- Climate Zone: Warm Temperate
- Gender: Female
My Projects
(projects i'm involved in)
-
Echoes in the valley
Ingolldsby, Australia
Projects
(projects i'm following)
Contacts
Followers
Following
My Badges
My Permaculture Qualifications
- PDC course
- Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course
- Teacher: Tom Kendall
- Location: sunshine coaSt
- Date: Nov 2012
0
PDC Graduates (list)
0
PRI PDC Graduates (list)
0
Other Course Graduates (list)
have acknowledged being taught by francine chanover
0
have not yet been verified (list)
Actually, I'm not a PDC teacher
Climate Zones
francine chanover has permaculture experience in:- Warm Temperate
- Sub-tropical
About francine chanover
I ve been involved in permaculture since my 20s in some expression or another. Ive always been organic and planted companion planting. Ive also always wanted my own 100 plus acres which Ive now been privileged enough to be living on the property by 2012..Presently Ive managed to go there a few times and set up a sea container comfy place with solar and wind power. so um a tenth of the way there lol. lots still to do.
I speak french, am trying to learn thai and have built out of mudbrick, rammed earh, stone, sea containers, glass bottles too.
Ive learnt everything through trial and error not through courses.Mainly learning from others and practice.. as they say practice and knowledge handed down , can make a big difference,
We are WWoofing hosts also .
I have no qualms in setting the farm up as a community , one with likeminded people who all help each other and work together equally.
we now have a website
called echoesinthevalley.com
DURING the cyclone in january that devastated queensland
and the Lockyer valley area
Amazing swales do their work
after 404 mill of rain the swales worked a dream
so here s a look at the swales now
after a few weeks of hard physical work and much planning
We have now started the first earthworks
the beginnings of the gatton demonstration farm
looking for someone to assist in setting up permaculture gatton
income projects, setting up a local community group
Setting up solar panels on sea containers
Since we decided to build the first place with sea containers
Looking to set up a food forest
for myself, bees and koalas too
The floods and torrential rains recently damaged and washed away the main access road
As it is the only road access to the top of the hill I have devised a plan
Putting up wind generator number 1
The aim is to use only wind, solar and other alternative power to generate the whole farm and everything used on it
So we half got the teepee up
A place for visitors to stay when they come visit