CURRENT MISSION

So many.

Survive my last TX summer, snuggle my dog, rabble rouse, educate, agitate, eat more vegetables.

ABOUT ME

I'm headed to California in the fall to start a graduate program at Cal Poly Pomona, studying landscape architecture. I'm thrilled about the learning, less about the debt and impending ramen noodle diet.

I hope to find folks that can host me and my excellent doggo in a tiny home in exchange for some dollars towards rent/bills, some food gardening, landscaping, or combination of the above. Ive worked as a regenerative landscaper and community garden manager (for an HOA style planned community - kinda a weird gig) for 5 or 6(?) years now. I know what I'm doing with rainwater and greywater, basic carpentry and stone work, trees, veggie gardens, food forests, composting toilets, etc.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've done a good deal of hosting people and being hosted over the years. I don't currently have a good place for folks to sleep, but if and when that changes I hope to share with fellow travelers again.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couch surfed for the first time in CapeTown South Africa with my wonderful host Terrance, then in Paris for 2 weeks and maybe again someday? Also pretty excited to host . . .

Interests

Art, live music. good conversations with people, travelers, serindipity, plants, worms, compost, paint, yellow bike projec

• dogs
• arts
• dining
• gardening
• politics
• movies
• music
• herbal medicine
• community organizing
• natural building

Music, Movies, and Books

I don't believe in favorites.

Nina Simone, le Tigre, Folk, blues, jazz, etc

Charlie Chaplin - just generally.

1984 is a fav from childhood. I have a half dozen half finished books in my life that rotate, pretty much at all times. Currently "Caliban and the Witch" - which is an anarcho-feminist analysis of the transition from feudalism to capitalism and the enclosure of the commons, "Women who run with the Wolves" which is fantastic, "The art of not being Governed" which is an anarchist history of resistance to statehood in Southeast Asia, An Indiginous People's History of the United States - which i highly reccomend, and my current favorite book - Braiding Sweetgrass, which is sort of a autobiographical first person style ethnobotany book about indiginous relationships to land and ecology.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I built a yurt and lived in it for two years in downtown Austin TX (backyards). No running water, no air conditioning. If I did it again I would do it differently, but the experience was eye opening.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help you fix your bike (worked/volunteered at a non-profit bike shop and taught classes for 5 years) or grow your food. I'm looking to learn to speak better spanish.

What I Can Share with Hosts

It depends on the situation, but i share what I can when i can. Generally I try and share food if I'm visiting people, longer term it tends to be plant knowledge, help with garden/construction/carpentry/plumbing projects.

Countries I’ve Visited

Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Ghana, South Africa, United States

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