Hi from New Zealand, I live in Westport on the West Coast of the South Island - a lovely place with a healthy annual rainfall - with my wife and two children. We are very blessed to rent a house with a couple of acres of good pasture. We acquired a commercial Jersey calf a couple of years ago and she calved this year - fulfilling a life long dream, our own house cow. We have Light Sussex chooks, an English Cocker Spaniel, moggie, and a number non-specific sheep Over the years I have worked in Landscape design, horticulture, sales, farming, saw-milling and sign writing. I now work at the local Hotel as the janitor cum warehouseman cum whatever. My wife home schools our children and trades in books (our NZ 'ebay' is called trademe). We love networking with people who are doing things for themselves, bartering ideas, goods and stories. Looking forward to the knowledge wave conference/workshop in Karamea this January. Would love to have our own place one day with a coal range and composting toilet! Happy to share what we know/are learning and any equipment we have. We were once part of WOOFERs but are not really set up for accommodation at the mo.