CURRENT MISSION

To see and interpret the world with my own eyes.

I want to understand the complexities of local and national food systems and create a more resilient, community-based system with hopes of reducing the energy impact of the current system.

PHILOSOPHY

You can't dislike something until you've tried it out! Some of the coolest things happen by exploring and keeping an open perspective. I try to find the positives in every situation that comes forth, why sit on the negatives?

I may not agree with every perspective but am a willing listener to humble my own ignorance.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just rebooted my account after a couple years but have had a couple great experiences attending events/road tripping while living in Melbourne!

Interests

Trekking, tennis, soccer, music, football, travel (of course), anything that gets me outdoors, wandering around, photography, writing, reading, movies, scuba diving, farming, biosystems engineering, community-based food systems, animal care, volunteering, sustainability, and in love with coffee and dark chocolate!

• animals
• writing
• photography
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• scuba diving
• soccer
• tennis
• history
• volunteering
• food
• sustainability
• museums
• farming
• local culture
• hydroponics
• biosystems

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies/Series/Shows: Anchorman, Saving Private Ryan, Goodfellas, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Workaholics, Parks and Recreation, American Gods, West World, The Big Sick, Guardians of the Galaxy, An Idiot Abroad, Key and Peele, and many more...

Music: The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, Flume, STRFKR, Muse, Foster the People, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Kid Cudi, Jay-Z, Childish Gambino, Future Islands, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Cage The Elephant, The Lumineers, Matt & Kim, OutKast, Phoenix, Portugal. The Man, RAC, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, Zeds Dead, Shakey Graves, Marvin Gaye, Smino...a little of everything other than Country

Books: Tale of Two Cities, The Things They Carried, The Great Gatsby, 1984, White Noise, Rebuilding the Foodshed, On the Road, Into the Wild, The Alchemist,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Saved up money and took a year and a half off of uni to travel and work in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, England, and the Netherlands meeting amazing people, eating delicious food, and doing things I never imagined doing like working as a shepherd and cheesemaker in Tasmania, trekking to Amadablam base camp in Everest National Park, and scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United Kingdom, United States