Words for a good life – farm foodie and advocate coming to writers’ festival

LANDSCAPE designer and expert in permaculture Hannah Moloney will make her first appearance at a writers’ festival this May.

Moloney will appear alongside fellow Tasmanian sustainability advocates Matthew Evans and Jade Miles for one session and with chef Annie at the Bendigo Writers’ Festival.

“I’m thrilled to be asked to come,” she said.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity to catch up with friends but also for the advocacy we’re doing around sustainable food systems, soil health and climate safety.

“The more conversations we can have along those lines the better.”

Moloney wrote her first book The Good Life: How To Grow A Better World last year, and said it’s about how to live as well as possible in the face of a climate emergency.

“Integrated into all that is about how individual power and autonomy and the choices that we make all link to collective traction we can have to moving towards a climate just and safe world,” she said.

Each chapter of the book focuses on a different topic, such as house, garden or community and discusses different ways to make “individual and collective change.”

“I have really practical tips, everything from how to grow food or how to create a car share system,” Moloney said.

“Everything from tiny things we can do to quite significant things like moving your money out of fossil fuelled funds and banks, things that don’t take a lot of time but can have a big impact.

“The idea is anybody in the world can pick this book up and do one to three things in there. it’s trying to tap into everybody’s capacity.”

You can catch Moloney discussing her thoughts on how to live a good life at the Bendigo Writers’ Festival from 12 to 15 May. Book a ticket at bendigowritersfestival.com.au.