Ola!

[GARNIER Catherine]

Ola!

Me llamo Catherine. Aprendo el espanol pero y quiero comunicar con ustedes durante mi viaje en Mexico … y conoce los… Y intento continuar comunicando en inglès... Amicalmente vustra amiga Catherine.

I live in the south of France and I have the project to come to Mexico from about the 10th of January to about the 10th of February 2014.

I choose this dates according to the quietest period for the activities in my little school farm, that I will leave to my son of 21 years old, with gardens and animals (dogs, donkeys, chickens and gooses), so that he will have the less work to do alone!

Sustainable living : I leave in this place since about thirty years long, among pine forest and scrubland, first in little Woodhouse and since December 2012 in a yurt. (After a second great fire in the sector, my caban was destroyed and authorities expected me to get into the range but it didn’t work!)

We have a generator only for the water pomp… We use some little solar light, and gas for the refrigerator and cooking. We project to install wood and solar ovens, and solar panels soon to get a little more energetic independence. And we have a very nice climate that generally allows us to warm only for a very short time...

Studies and experiences : After learning traditional agriculture about 15 years ago, that never answered to my questioning… I got the chance, through associations, to meet people experimenting other solutions more respectful from the nature and the earth. Since then, I am experimenting and teaching agro ecology and sustainable development through the association "Les Jardins De Tara".

I expect from our meeting to learn and exchange ideas and experiences in order to get further and transmit them around me. And, as we share quiet the same way of living, I will enjoy come and help you through your own tasks during my stay.

I hope sincerely that you will accept my visit and my help. Tell me a little more about the minimum days you want me to stay, the general works we will do and how is the climate at this period… and where exactly you are situated so that I can make a provisional program… because I would like to meet a few Mexican farmers and by the way see different sides of your country. I never traveled so far away from France, and I feel that it is very important for me to do it now… and I’m sure that I will come back to learn and share more and more!