El+Von+Farmer

 **... a little bit about ... **  El Von Farmer  --- El Von Farmer was born on the 7th of August in 1978, age (33), in Cambridge, New Zealand. She comes from the Waikato Region of New Zealand, which is well known for their agriculture and forestry. This is where El’s love for agriculture and the land steamed from.

When El turned 18 she left her home town to seek more education evolving around agricultural science. She moved to Australia and enrolled in her first Bachelor Course, which was Bachelor of Agricultural science. She successfully completed this course within the four years. The course covered information including forestry, food, animal and crop population, horticulture and landscape. El also completed another four year course which was a Degree in Agri – Environmental Science.

El is married to a successful Dairy Farmer who owns and runs Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited which is the largest processing company of milk in New Zealand. El has no children but says she soon wants to move back to New Zealand with her husband and settle down.

El for the past 6 years worked at an Agricultural Biotechnology Centre in Western Australia. El provides platform technologies and world-class equipment and facilities for researches and state governments to use. For the past year El has travelled around the world to go to universities to talk about aspects about Agricultural Science.

El Von Farmer is currently working alongside S.M.I.T.E to help create smaller communities on ‘The Island’. She has been assigned to 5TreesOfLife (5TOL) which is made up of four members; Animilia Green (Ecologist), Eleanor Harvard (Economist), Desenor Ingeniero (Engineer) and Heather News (Journalist).