I was born and raised in western Washington. I was exposed to the natural world at a young age. My family was involved in logging and I spent time in the woods, around logging equipment, and log trucks in an area that was suffering, and still suffers from the depressions of an industry that has extracted resources and left.
My mother and I moved to Australia when I was 11 and I lived there until I was 15. I moved back to the USA and lived with my dad until I graduated from high school in 2002. After high school I travelled around: taught guitar at a summer camp in Maine, went to back to Australia for a while, drove forklift at a soybean processing plant in North Dakota, my friends joined the military and fought the war, I went to community college, went to and graduated from Marlboro College, Marlboro Vermont. I had a son in 2008 with my partner at the time, she took me to New Mexico for a 4 years, where I worked as a substitute teacher, a state weights and measures official, and began farming. As our relationship dissolved I moved back to Vermont and worked for High Mowing Organic Seeds. I worked at High Mowing for two and half years, learning an incredible amount about farming, vegetable seed production, and vegetable growing. In 2014 I moved back to Washington hoping to start my own farming operation. Things didn't quite work out and I knew it was time for a change. I applied to the Mississippi Teacher Corps, was accepted and moved to Mississippi to learn new skills, to begin to understand a new place and people, and to finally realize that the road goes on forever. Feel free to contact me: [email protected] |