CURRENT MISSION

Grow and learn, be more sustainable, make more friends around the world and at home.

ABOUT ME

Have been teaching in nature preschools and alternative elementary schools for the past 3 years, now I am taking a year off to travel, ski, learn, practice home-steading, live with my cute cat, dog and partner, and take a course called the Forest School Practitioners Course. I have tree planted for many years, I organize community events and music festivals, offer voluntary kids activities at gatherings and expand my horizons in new directions constantly.

Opportunitarian: I eat what I find, gather, dumpster dive, scrounge, make from compost, and grow. I don't buy meat, but I do buy eggs, cheese and milk products.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have hosted some CSers in Victoria, and have been hosted while on a cycle trip, in Peru and have met friends through CS in my own community!

Interests

Music Festivals (especially folk music)
Cycling
Backcountry skiing
Education (esp. alternative)
Wild Crafting / Harvesting Mushrooms
Herbalism
Gardening, farming (permaculture)
Hiking and other outdoor adventures
Non-violence (anti-oppression, decolonization)
Yoga
Community organizing

• music festivals
• education
• gardening
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• skiing
• teaching
• languages
• herbalism
• tiny homes
• harvesting
• trailer life

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Learning the accordion, love jamming/sessions!
Listening and checking out shows, especially folk, blues and blue grass, funk!, soul, jazz, world music, singer/songwriter, dub (NOT dubstep!), ska, opera... most kinds of music really
Favorites: JJ Cale, Nina Simone, Michelle Shocked and the Beatles

Reads:
Dystopic novels, cult classics, women's writing, poetry, radical zines and alternative lifestyle informational stuff, etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A 28 Km, one day, backcountry ski trip up and then down Mt. Albert Edward with Alan - supa ski pal!

Cycled across the bridge from Washington state to Astoria in Oregon state. Holy macaroni petrifying 4 miles of adrenaline with cycle bud Megan!

Visited 6 small weaving communities in the Sacred Valley near Cuzco, Peru. The land and the people connected to it are outstanding; ancient futures of a truly beautiful kind. Thank you Rose, dear friend, for sharing your journeys to these places with me

Teach, Learn, Share

-Childcare and forest school philosophy based education
-Sustainabilty and no-waste life
-Community living
-Organizing events

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada