Great Aunt Flo said to Johnnie, "A chook with an egg is an incubator nurturing food security!"
John lives a remarkably eclectic journey through innovation in Victoria Australia, starting on a poultry farm and engineering workshop in West Footscray, connected to mixed farming and dairying in Western Victoria.
John is a pioneer of civil society innovation when he co-leads:
- Lonesome Road Folk Coffee
- Lounge West Footscray
- Knox – a better place to live
- YOUTH 2000 Victoria
- Warnambool Community School
- Fred Emery Dialogues
- Operation Restoration Ash Wednesday
- Sustainable Independent Living Transitions
- Arts Technology Exchange
- uni-X Technology
- KUNEXION
- KONTAINEX
- Memorybyrnon
- Kinglake Black Saturday Bushfires Sawmill
- Yarra Project Zero
- The Goods Shed Taradale
- Peter Ellyard Dialogues
- Pilgrims Way
- The Farmers Place