behind the scenes

JILL REDWOOD

Jill lives in a small remote valley nested in the forests of East Gippsland. She moved to the small settlement of Goongerah and created a magical and productive food park and animal sanctuary from a blackberry ridden cow paddock. Jill’s apprenticeship in making-do and simple self-sufficiency began in her early 20s. Jill then built her pole-framed house: the ‘house that Jill built’. She set up off-grid power, fenced, planted, adopted many animals and established a large food production system. Jill has been writing about self-sufficiency for EG since 1990.

While living in the remote Gippsland forests Jill also works tirelessly for our environment. As a key forest campaigner in regional Victoria