Legendary Lowlands farmer

Constructing raised planting beds in the Lowlands: (Sept/Oct 07)






My garden in mid November :(after construction of all the raised beds, trellises + planting over 25 different type of vegetables!)

Cool Florida flowers:
Passion flower

My rice paddies: (sown on 2nd Aug and harvest 14th Nov)

20 Sept 07

15 Nov 07 - Me and Dan harvesting rice - Yay!

Bringing in the sheaves

Pictures taken during '2007 ECHO Agricultural Conference': - 240 people attended from over 30 countries!

Angela teaching a workshop on "Fruit and Forestry Tree Nurseries for Small Scale Farmers"

The Ethiopia crew at Conference - Caleb, me, Denise Ward, Paul Lukins, and Markos (I know Denise and Markos from when I was in Ethiopia in 05/06) - great times reminiscing and speaking Amharic!

Me in my garden

Canoeing at Myakka:

Spot the alligators

Darren, Angela, Ruth, me, Marcie, and Roy at Myakka

first Florida photos

Hi friends and family,

Here's some photos of me in Florida over the last several months. Hope you enjoy them.

At Starbucks with my flatmates (Ruth, me, Jen, Emily, and Marcie)

Me, Emily, and Marcie at the Fairchild Botanical Gardens, Miami (we went there as part of a field trip)

Us planting rice in a seedling bed (July 07)

Learning to graft fruit trees (avocadoes, sapodillas, mangoes, etc)

Rice paddy no 1. after transplanting seedlings into it

Both rice paddies in early September. Unflooded (left), and flooded (right)

(My banana patch in the background)

Us interns and co. at Hickeys Creek

Me at Hickeys Creek

The last few years

Hi freinds and family,

Thanks for checking my blogg. I thought for my first posting that you might enjoy seeing afew of my photos from the last year or so. These next ones are of my time in Ethiopia (Sept 05 - Sept 06), then afew of me in New Zealand before leaving for the U.S. in June 07.

Friends in Addis Ababa




Staying with a local family in Injibara - our bed above the sheep




Weighing sheep (as part of our sheep forage project)

Typical Ethiopian countryside in the Central Highlands (the area where I worked)

Horse racing - done on Ethiopian Orthodox holidays

The gals I travelled with on our week long tour of northern Ethiopia's famous archelogical sites.

Me being a tourist in Lalibella. Churches hewn out of solid rock in the ground - amazing!

Back in New Zealand:

Tim (my bro) and I at Castle Hill, Arthurs Pass National Park, New Zealand

Waimak and Esk Rivers seen from Flock Hill Station

Other photos taken while I was working at Flock Hill Lodge, Canterbury: