About
Hi, I’m Cate Ferguson and welcome to my blog.
You may have seen my Life Purpose e-course or my Meditation How To Blog and to tell the truth, there are so many things I’m passionate about that I just don’t know when I’ll ever get to explore them all.
In a way, that is what this blog is all about – a place to explore things that just a few years ago were considered a little “alternative lifestyle“. Recently it’s become apparent that what what once considered alternate is now becoming more mainstream.
I’d like to share a little of my story and my life with you, so you can decide if I’m the kind of person you would like to associate with.
I live in Australia in the state of Victoria at the foothills of the mountains. It’s glorious here and my place of peace and sanctuary, a 2 acre piece of paradise in a place that still retains some of it’s wildness (at least around the edges!).
I live here with my partner and our son and I have two older sons from a previous marriage, who live in Sydney and a grandson who (of course) is adorable! Now that might sound fairly normal and barely alternative until you scratch the surface a little….
- I home educate our son and that is not something that is very widely done in this country. I love it and so does my son who is now at that pre-teens age, we have a wonderful relationship with each other and with many people in our community, all because we home school. Just one of my passions – education!
- Then there is my home. It’s probably the most visually ‘alternate’ thing that most people will notice about me. When it’s finished it will be an eco-friendly, sustainable stawbale house. We are owner building it, and so far have done most of the work ourselves, with me acting as a reluctant project manager. Gosh I’m learning so much and have had to face up to many of my tendancies to put things off for another day.
A while ago I realised I had so many things I was interested in and felt at a loss as to how to bring them all together. While pondering this I discovered the thread of creativity running through all of them. That one discovery has led me down a new pathway and I’ve ended up here with this Alternative LifeStyle blog acting as a unifying force to help me bring my passions for being creative, helping people, education and goodness only knows what else into one place.
You see there is ONE more area of interest that I am passionate about. Planet Earth!! That is why I live an alternative lifestyle – not hippy – I just make choices that may seem alternate to some people… or they used to.
- I used to ask for cardboard boxes to pack my grocery shopping in, then I took calico or canvas bags. Now the supermarkets all have their eco friendly bags and everyone is using them. No so alternative now hey?
- How about my chickens and ducks and my evolving organic garden and orchard (loosely based on Permaculture Design Principles) that I hope will one day feed us entirely during the Summer and Autumn (Fall) seasons. You know, I did this when we lived on a tiny piece of land right in the middle of a town – you don’t need masses of space to begin eating pure, fresh organic food! Ooops, another passion… sorry.
- Then there is our solar hot water service, our recycling habits, our conscious consumer attitude… all of these are now much more mainstream.
Maybe I could rephrase that… they are becoming more mainstream for some people. For others it’s all so hard, too confusing, and often there is so much different information you just don’t know where to start. Don’t you worry about any of that, I’ve been doing this for years and years and now I’m going to share with you all the stuff I already know and all the stuff I’m going to learn from here on in. How about that?
So, that’s a little bit about me.
Please sign up for the newsletter so you can be kept updated with all the latest and greatest, or simple age old remedies as they come to my awareness. You can find the sign up form at the top of the page in the right hand corner of the blog.
While you are at it, leave me a comment so I can post stuff here that will be especially useful for you. That’s my aim, to provide you with value and be of service to help you live the new ‘alternative’ lifestyle that is perfect for you.
