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This wonderful woman is
Jill Redwood.
Jill built her house in East Gippsland, Australia where she
has lived alone for over 30 years entirely off-grid with no mains power, water,
mobile reception or television. Living on around $80 a week, Jill
has over sixty animals to keep her company and an abundant garden
that serves as an organic supermarket right outside her doorstep.
Generating all her own solar power and collecting water from
the local creek (see video right), Jill lives a totally self-sufficient life.
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The house and neighbouring sheds are a museum of 19th and 20th
century bits and pieces where a lifetime of salvaged things are kept just in case they are
needed some day. Nothing goes to waste, everything is either
composted or recycled somehow.
Living on a home grown organic diet, free of all refined foods,
Jill has clear skin, bright eyes and the fitness of a woman much younger; she never gets sick.
Jill goes shopping in her town, an hour and a half's
journey, only when she has to. She can manage without
visiting the shops for around six months. She has a
larder filled with pickles and preserves, makes her own apple
juice and has 19th century solutions to almost all maintenance
problems. She is a
walking encyclopaedia on survival, natural living
skills, plants and animals. Her only 21st century luxury is the internet which
she uses as a freelance writer and her work for
Environment
East Gippsland, a community forest group protecting Victoria's
last ancient forest. |
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