CURRENT MISSION

***health is our wealth***

ABOUT ME

***accepting international travelers only*** after December 28th 2015. Please get in touch though to plan ahead. I'm off trekking until then.***

I enjoy working with plants and having dirt on my hands. I believe in quality of life in the sense that we need not age early and suffer bad health from working world stress if we can survive by working a bit and having many hobbies that sustain life. I try to embody this in my life. I will work a bit, travel and learn a bit, repeat. Agriculture and the ensuing industrial revolution have been detrimental to our human quest towards paradise. Why be tied to a job and bills? In this sense I thoroughly enjoy hanging with people who live by the governing laws of nature, not the free market. I am trying to recreate the idea of paradise wherein anyone can learn to plant and care for species for food, medicine and recreation anywhere they dwell. The next evolution for this would be to have these oases around the globe where everyone can benefit. It's happening as I type.

Estimated time spent with activities involving food, growing, gathering, searching for, making seeds, cooking, eating, socializing with others while doing all these comes to about 70% of waking hours.

I have lived in plains style tipi and a 145 square foot cabin in the past as well as a hammock under a tarp. Generally I enjoy roughing it; bathing it rivers, gleaning apples to eat, riding my bike places and sleeping in a tent in warm places during the winter months. This may account for my tendency to be more jovial when I am living a nomadic lifestyle, constantly moving and exploring.

PHILOSOPHY

"All I have is my planting stick and corn, if you are willing to live as I do, you may live with me and care for the land" --Hopi prophecy

I enjoy living thrifty and locally but try to limit my rigidity as this would be somewhat hypocritical

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted many folks during this past summer, 2011 and had a blast. I am heading to Europe in later December 2012 with hopes of paying it forward.

Thanks to all the hosts in Europe this winter and early spring.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All positive experiences hosting in Portland. When I am able again hosting will resume in Cascadia. Talk of couchsurfing friendly home with friends this fall.

Interests

Hiking, flyfishing, bike touring, XC Mtn biking, surfing, beachs, basketball, folk art, outsider art, high art, gardening, permaculture, hydrology, ecology, bioregions, watersheds, your culture and food traditions, world cuisine, cooking, acoustic music, wildcrafting, geography, reading, traveling all sound good to me.

Renewable energy, dumpster diving, exploring industrial areas at night, bike trips, community (at least the idea, sometimes the practice building it)

• arts
• culture
• dining
• cooking
• baking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• socializing
• dumpster diving
• magic
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• agriculture
• cartography
• ecology
• geography
• medicine
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

One Straw Revolution- Masanobu Fukuoka
The Foxfire Book- Elliot Wigginton
Rainbow Crow- S.E. Scholsser
Botany of Desire- Micheal Pollan
Standing in a River Waving A Stick- John Gierach
The Big Sea- Langston Hughes

reggae, blues, bluegrass, salsa, carribean, Coltrane, Monk, Garcia, Robert Johnson, Muddy Water, R.L. Burnside, veracruz music, hillary singing

Teach, Learn, Share

Gardening, wild foods, building shelters, climbing trees, acoustic music, bread baking, cooking scratch meals, bike repair and car repair, historical information, geographic info are things I am able to share with surfers.

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States