CURRENT MISSION

Traveling tiny home.

Looking to be Eco-farming.

ABOUT ME

Writer/Homesteader/Botanist/Restoration ecologist/Permaculturist/musician/artist/biointensive farmer and mate' drinker/vegetarian.
Somewhere between animism and taoism and atheism.

Labels are never who we are.

PHILOSOPHY

Live simply, satisfied with basic needs. Not wanting wants.

Everyone is doing the best they can if they could do better they would.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed before the internet and cell phones! And I'm not even old yet, Am I?

visited 35 states (70%)

Interests

Plants, fungi, animals, and the other Kingdoms of important species we all forget to mention, food and people. meditation /~\ health and balance.

• animals
• writing
• literature
• dining
• vegetarian
• meditation
• restoration
• music
• ecology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Continuum concept: In Search Of Happiness Lost . Jean Leitoff.
Wandering God; A study in Nomadic spirituality. Morris Berman
Hierarchy in the forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Christopher Boehm
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer Economics And The Environment. John Gowdy (Editor)
The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen and Maria Mies
Sowing seeds in the desert:Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security Masanobu Fukuoka
Helen and Scott Nearing. Krishnamurti.

Music. Changes... though Orchestra Baobob must be one of the greatest bands ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8oYwng8w8c

Board games! I have the largest collection of hunter/gatherer/forager board games in the world. (3) And the 3rd edition of Dominant species!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seeing a birth.

Teach, Learn, Share

You do realize, don't you, that we are destroying the earth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtY8DpA_XNE&feature=player_embedded

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2012/10/poles-apart-a-record-breaking-summer-and-winter/

At least 27,000 and as many as 140,000 extinctions are now occurring ever year. Nearly all people who have studied the issue say at the very least 75 species a day are going extinct. The normal or background extinction rate is much less than 100 hundred species a year. We are currently losing at least that many everyday.
“Scientists estimate that between 150 and 200 species of life become extinct every 24 hours.” U.N. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Help restore ourselves our groups and the earth.
Start an eco-farm!

Currently growing 70 varieties of food and hosting over a 100 native plants living in permaculture community.

Eco-Farming Can Double Food Production in 10 Years,UN report. Small-scale farmers can double food production within 10 years in critical regions by using ecological methods...UN report* shows. Based on an extensive review of the recent scientific literature, the study calls for a fundamental shift towards agroecology as a way to boost food production and improve the situation of the poorest. “To feed 9 billion people in 2050, we urgently need to adopt the most efficient farming techniques available,” says Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and author of the report. “Today’s scientific evidence demonstrates that agro-ecological methods outperform the use of chemical fertilizers in boosting food production where the hungry live --especially in unfavorable environments.”

What is agro-ecology and eco-farming permaculture?
Combining the natural wisdom of nature and science to create a living sustaining system that includes some more-intensive food production without destroying natural ecosystems and even benefiting and repairing them.

...agroecology seeks to improve the sustainability of agro-ecosystems by mimicking nature instead of industry. This report suggests that scaling up agro-ecological practices can simultaneously increase farm productivity and food security, improve incomes and rural livelihoods, and reverse the trend towards species loss and genetic erosion.