CURRENT MISSION create gardens and participate in community everywhere i go . . . ABOUT ME i'm not sure i can fit it into a short an easy quotation . . . . i thrive on new information, i can't stop migrating, i get along with all kinda of people ... Raised in a log cabin, Aero is both a Mennonite & a Wood Elf at heart -- a stranger existing in the foreign world of smoggy cities, deadly culture, and excessive consumption. He has been learning what it takes to cultivate a sustainable lifestyle, in whatever big or little ways - possible to fit anybody's life. Growing up he worked at many retail businesses, including ownership of a fair-trade & natural gift store. However, he left it to pursue more organic matters -- needing to know what it really meant to live in balance & harmony with the Earth. After one year of college on the deans list, he became nomadic - rejecting mainstream society and undertaking migratory work-trade & traveler student relationships most of the last 12 years (except for a brief stint operating the small business). channeled from one adventure to the next, each experience gave him pieces of the Big Picture: deeper looks, wider perspectives, and better vision. after reconciling with the worst he sees in humanity, and with himself, he is back to teach what he has seen and learn from you the things he missed. He has now traveled the united states extensively - participating & learning the untamed ways of the wild, compiling years of hard work on many organic fruit & veggie farms, going to farmers markets, wild-harvesting gourmet & medicinal mushrooms, going to more farmers markets, eating wild plants, working on edible landscape gardens, living in a teepee, a tree-house, an RV, many cabins and tents off-grid. Now after much independent study of sustainable New & Olde Ways, he has found himself back in the Big City - brimming, bursting, ready & eager to share & impart knowledge from more than a Decade Long Quest. Yet amongst all these blessings of life, his greatest accomplishment is his daughter; though he is a discerning libra and a sturdy mountain goat, he sees she is already much wiser and stronger than he. Aero is a no no longer an apprentice - yet not quite a master, who knows that gardening (at its essence) is an incredibly viable form of alchemy. where else in your life can you transform any kind of garbage at all, by (1) take rotting substances, (2) put it in a magic bin/spot/pile for a few months, (3) transfer that slop into your yard, and with the (4) help of the primordial elements of fire (sun), water (rain), air (wind flow), and earth (soil) create unique and entirely new forms of life & existence -- and then (5) consume it inside your body to make it a new part of you!?!? Wow! Content with knowing he will never really know, he is still eager to acquire information and sort thru it for the best possibilities, hopeful that he will have some kind of information to share with you to benefit your life as well. These days Aero is paying attention to the balance in the cycles of natures, and how they operate to create new life in every moment -- and hopes someday you will too! he especially likes being around trees, foraging for wild goodies, espouses alternative energy possibilities, knows many natural housing options (straw-bale, recycled, etc), loves cooking, craves live fermented & sprouted foods, desires more juices & smoothies flowing thru his veins, needs more community & cooperation in his life, is interested in medicine from cultures foreign to our own, and lives knee deep in the Earth: radiating, reading, philosophizing & writing -- and he wishes luck, love, light, leaves, and laughter to you! i don't travel, so much as i migrate... I have done new things every year for the past ten years. I have worked on organic farms in wisconsin & california, lived off grid in the mountains of oregon, picked gourmet mushrooms over a few years, done various work/trade situations, traveled and taken seasonal labor here and there, landscaped a yard so i could live under the redwood tree, & basically trying to stay out of monetary systems as much as possible, while maintaining a healthy body and mind. I still play soccer games, i just learned ultimate, but i really really Really need to do more yoga (but its tough on the road). I would like to learn more about permaculture and biodynamics, but i have a pretty good idea already. I think almost all landscaping ought to be edible, medicinal, or compostable. ... although at times i enjoy the ability to sit around and do nothing, i am not one of those people who "spare changes" -- that is not what a 'dharma bum' does, a 'dharma bum' is on the path to enlightenment (and/or is partially enlightened already). a bodhisattva hears the never-ending humming of the all-pervading Tao, and has no choice but to abandon a 'civilized' life, following heart over mind, always learning, always working... chopping woods, carrying water, doing the work somehow without being involved... however, it is important to see who and what one is working for. therefore, my decision to forgo the currently currency monetary system. most of the money i have had i spend on organic foods, because we vote with our dollars, it is good for you and good for the planet, it is good short-term and ever better long term, and that is about the most easily attainable remedy for our ailing planet. --- .. click on "my website" (on the left column) to find me on facebook :p PHILOSOPHY row, row, row your boat gently down the stream merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream........ "KNOW THYSELF" "no eternal reward, will forgive us now, for wasting the dawn" Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged." ...Christopher Phillips "one fast move or i'm gone" ~ kerouac