Throughout the 1990s, with the assistance of international WWOOFERS ("Willing Workers on Organic Farms"), See http://www.wwoof.org/americas.asp Forrester (a vegetarian) and his family (including six children) operated a communal 80 acres organic farm in an Australian eucalypt forest in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, based on principles developed by permaculture designer and fellow Shire of Hepburn resident David Holmgren.