Wednesday, June 27, 2007

RED CATHERINE AND HER LIFE ON ‘ARTEMIS’



It gives me a lot of pleasure to bring you stories about Red Catherine and her life on Artemis
She is a wonderful Romany woman with lots of stories to tell.
The name of Red Catherine’s property is ARTEMIS and it is 157 acres.

It is a lot of land for 1 woman to look after!!! And she looks after it so well!
Artemis is located in a remote area about one and a half hours from Adelaide, South Australia.
In Australia we call this Mallee Country. Mallee is land that doesn’t get much rain and the trees don’t grow very tall. It has the beauty of open spaces, wide skies, hot shimmering summers and star filled nights.


She gives all her time and money to rescuing animals – farm animals, wild animals, cats and dogs and birds. At the moment she is looking after about 80 animals.
Her mission is in creating a not for profit sanctuary for all creatures in need of rescuing or in need of a home

We have aslo put a lot of time & effort into re-vegetating parts of her land with native trees and bushes to provide local habitat for the wild birds and animals.
2 years ago we planted 1,500 trees but because of the drought only about 120 of them still live.
But better than none! This winter we will plant about 800 gum & wattle trees. Please let it rain!!!

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