CURRENT MISSION

Doing Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn...to keep bees on a roof this summer and make my own mead from the honey!

ABOUT ME

I'm pretty adventuresome; a really curious person... A busy-body, aspiring to have a still mind. I grew up in the south of the US -Virginia and NC, and if I had to describe myself with a season/region, it would probably be late summer in that area.

I want to have my own biodynamic farm back home someday, but currently I'm focused on urban farming, food justice, and learning spanish in Brooklyn, NY.

I'm a good listener, strive to make people feel comfortable, to have an open mind, and look forward to what I can learn through spontaneity.

I don't smoke, and I will take care to be respectful of your couch/home/lifestyle.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well - I'm new at this! I'm currently taking a bike trip with my best bud - Aislinn Farren - from Oxford Mississippi to New Orleans. It's a 400 mile in 10 day trip. Several friends recommended couch surfing as a wonderful way of seeing new places and interesting people - in your own town and theirs.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet -- but looking forward to hosting people come May, and looking forward to (hopefully) staying with some surfers down South (USA) for a bike trip I'm starting on the 15th of March.

Interests

Gardening/Farming/food justice
botany
Bicycles -- learning more about mechanics, seeing the world and my neighborhood slowly from the seat of my bike.
Art - particularly sculpture/ taxidermy
learning how to weld...interested in classes on furniture making
animal husbandry
keeping bees on rooftops n NY...
fermenting food
cooking with friends
being a better spanish speaker
reading
drinking coffee
playing the fiddle

• animals
• arts
• diy
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• drinking
• gardening
• reading
• pottery
• knitting
• cycling
• surfing
• sailing
• agriculture

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Mishsima, Lessons of Darkness, Ozu films, David Lynch films, Tarkovsky films (Nostalghia, The Mirror, Solaris), Into Great Silence

Music...uh, recently Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, The Black Keys, obscure blues fiddle recordings, Gillian Welch (always), Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Man Man, Phosphorescent, Fleet Foxes, Hot chip, Palestrina masses...

books: Eduardo Galleano stuff, Nabokov, William Faulkner works, 'Of Cabbages and Kings County', John Berger art criticism (The Shape of a Pocket, On Looking), Susan Sontag criticism, Alice and Wonderland, Robert Coover - especially The Public Burning and his short story about the Pied Piper, Stuart Dybek

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A dead whale floating into shore with a trail of oil leading out to sea while I was on a catamaran, sailing in Northern France. It's eye was open, and the it's side was raw from the sun. It was strangely beautiful.

Teach, Learn, Share

Lots of DIY skills, info about how to see NYC, knitting, crocheting, cooking a mean apple/cranberry or apricot/blueberry pie (depending on the season), bike maintenance, ceramics, seed starting, how to compost...

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, France, Panama, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala, India, United States