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Overview

  • 10 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • growing fruit trees and being there for my kid
  • I have a few diplomas in classical music
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

change a cow pasture into a eden garden with all kind of fruit trees

ABOUT ME

I am now father of a 4 year old girl.
I grow fruit trees and produce and sell young fruit trees.
I live in a small house made out of bamboo, earth and straw, in an ecovillage, also called intentional comunity.
I try hard to have a sustainable lifestyle, towards self sufficiency.
I grow lots of food, make my firewood with a hand saw, managed to live in the country without a car for three years.

I've been home-schooled nearly all my life.
I began juggling at age ten and playing music at 13.

be sure that I'm not expecting to be fed while surfing.

PHILOSOPHY

I don't have any religious belief, but I trust nature.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed in New York, Florida, San Francisco, San Diego and Mexico. Always great experiences.

Interests

Playing music, classical, Jazz and traditional,
Juggling (club passing)
Traveling by bike, hitch-hiking, sailing...
Permaculture, Building low tech cabins (strawbale, cob etc)
Hiking, snowshoeing, canoeing, kayaking etc
Grafting fruit trees
growing fruits and veggies

  • gardening
  • traveling
  • juggling
  • piano
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • sailing
  • hitchhiking
  • permaculture
  • intentional communities
  • farming
  • ecovillages
  • fruits
  • homeschooling
  • natural building
  • agroecology
  • grafting
  • fruit trees

Music, Movies, and Books

visited 26 states (11.5%)Create your own visited map of The World

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I cycled through 15 countries.
I juggled ten clubs with Vova Galchenko.
I crossed the Atlantic on a 50 foot catamaran with basically no sailing experience.
I built a straw bale house with my girlfriend with basically no building experience.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach: juggling, from 3 balls to 10 club passing.
Clarinet expert; guitar, piano and sax intermediate.
Reading musical scores, rhythm
How to pack a horse
how to bake sourdough bread
How to build a reciprocal roof.
Straw bale building.
Grafting fruit trees
gardening
building with earth: houses, ovens, stoves etc

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France

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