WHAT PEOPLE KNOWLinda Cockburn is best known for challenging her family to go six months without spending a dollar by growing their own food, using bicycles for transport, harvesting rainwater and sunlight from their roof in Living the Good Life, How One Family Changed Their World From Their Own Backyard. Hardie Grant, 2006. Snowbooks 2007.As a result the family had three television appearances and radio, newspaper and magazine coverage, including Time Magazine. Linda has written for ABC Organic Gardener Magazine since 2004. More recently (2022) Linda has appeared on ABC Gardening Australia with partner Trev Wittmer about their rare heirloom seed business, Seed Freaks (recently sold). WHAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOWIs that Linda wrote most of the book while lucid dreaming, a technique that took years to establish, but now allows her to write, usually in the middle of the night, and often without recollection. 'I didn't realise what I was doing until I stumbled upon a description of lucid dreaming. I'm not awake and I'm not asleep. The ego falls away and insights and connections I might not have seen are suddenly revealed.I see everything like a movie, hear the words and can semi-wake to record long passages by memory, often in reverse.'Linda's passion is to connect people with their descendants' lives and emphasise the part they're playing in them.
