I am a journalist from Finland, currently travelling in Tasmania. I am deeply impressed by this island and its people. I stayed a couple of weeks at a farm called Cherrytopia, in Lilydale. These people, farmers John and Lesley, have a beautiful lifestyle, sharing organic growing and permaculture ideology for guests and visitors in a farm/ farmstay. They are, as well, creative personalities and interesting people, participate to Bahai faith and Esperanto community. Both are originally from England … their story of coming together and moving to Tasmania is so interesting …
Even if the word “hipster” is an overused, irritating and irregular term, in this post I will write about “being a hipster” in connection to the farm where I am currently wwoofing, meaning volunteering in organic farms in exchange for maintenance. On my very first day I learned that if I thought that I had ever met hipsters before, it was nothing compared to this “hipsteria” in this farm (hipsteria = a hipster lifestyle).
Read more on Henni’s blog here
• Karl Stevens, in Comments: I think organic farming is very important in the big picture. All the hardware outlets concentrate on selling corporate herbicides rather than items like ‘blow torch’ weed killers. ‘Buzzies’ spread by wallabies are hard to remove manually and glysophate leaves toxic residues. It also poisons wallabies. I’m not surprised somebody from Finland feels at home in Tas.
A man called ‘Linus Torvalds’ from Finland is arguably one of the biggest influences on modern computing. He has already left a fantastic legacy that is the foundation of a lot of the internet. Much of the web is delivered from Apache servers running the Linux operating systems. These free systems reduced the cost of propriety systems like Windows and Apple. Linus pioneered online software development that spawned code repositories such as GitHub.
