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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • growing food, eating it with the world
  • agriculture, biology, botany, mycology, lichenology,
  • From whitefield, maine, usa
  • Profile 75% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

following the dancesteps of peculiar suggestions

ABOUT ME

there are these times like right now when i have to leave the places i have come to know and became comfortable with and venture into the infinate playground. right now im traveling around europe. if you ever surf my couch it will be on the farm i grew up on. im going to replant the apple orchard that existed over a hundred years ago and was gone before i came to be. I'm on a mission to learn the wisdom of food culture in europe. you know how to grow good ingredients and you know how to eat them. I'm going to Norway to work on a goat/sheep farm and to make cheese.

PHILOSOPHY

be well, do good work and keep in touch.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I do dishes, cook, i'd rather eat in with my hosts, but I'm up for going out too.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

ive hitchhiked and ended up on couches, ive been "homeless" in a town of friends and surfed their couches, and i always do the dishes.

Interests

art, music, gardens, mushrooms, lichens, plants, strangers, cooking, secrets, to be continued...

  • arts
  • culture
  • beauty
  • dining
  • cooking
  • cheese
  • traveling
  • music
  • hunting
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

kurt vonnegut; cats cradle, player piano, slapstick. tom robbins; even cowgirls get the blues, still life with woodpecker. jack kerouac; dharma bums, on the road. italo calvino; invisible cities.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i walked and lived in 2200 miles of the appalachian mountains in the US.
I saw a snake eat a frog, then I ate the snake.

Teach, Learn, Share

mushrooms, i love hunting for mushrooms, for dinner, for their beauty, for finding everything else you find when you hunt for mushrooms.
I know about compost and soil. Saving seed. Cartwheals. Piggy back rides.

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