My friends call me Jack. I live in easy biking distance from Lexington Virginia, which is a beautiful town in the Blue Ridge Valley. There is a lot of wildlife around which brings me a lot of joy. I have lived here one year, and worked very hard to fix up my house, gather tools, and establish the gardens.
I left a career with the forest service in order to dig in and learn how to live with the land and be of service to life. I want to be well-positioned to help people when things fall apart.
There is a very decent couple who I have invited to live on the grounds. We are neighbors and friends and support each other. They have three dogs. I have no pets.
I occupy a house with three bedrooms, two toilets, one shower/tub. It is in a rural neighborhood. The place is private enough, but not isolated. I have fiber internet. It works great.
I am a mixed-race white-presenting man of thirty years.
People of any shape or color are welcomed to inquire, especially if they be hard-working naturalists like myself.
In one word, what I do is agroforestry. I use ecologically-harmonious permaculture techniques without plastics or heavy machinery. In year one I spent a lot of time planting trees, clearing out invasive plants, establishing garden beds, and building deer fence out of naturally available material. Year two will be maintaining and building on that progress.
I am myself gaining proficiency with tools and putting callus on hands that have been soft for most of my life. Have you ever wanted to swing a scythe? There's a lot of different kinds of action and dirt to get into so you can chose what seems safe and fun.
I have preserved some food from my 2025 harvest, but It's not enough so I buy some from the market. By late March there are plenty of wild greens to forage on the grounds. From July to October I should be rolling in squash and tomatoes, other things too I hope.
I have a furnished kitchen and eat home cooked food every day. Leftovers go in the fridge and I eat whenever I'm hungry and sometimes when I'm not.
I'm a pretty good photographer, and that skill has helped me to share my appreciation of nature. I am not expert, but better than most in plant identification. I like to hike and cycle, and there is plenty to see in the nearby hills and mountains, but I have such a drive to garden and improve the habitat value of my land that I haven't explored much.
¡Hola! Hablo muy mal español, pero los hispanohablantes pueden postularse si su nivel de inglés no es peor que mi nivel de español.
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Forestry
Wild foraging
Seed saving or production
Meat processing
Traditional crafts
Green Building
Renewable energy production
Food justice / sovereignty
Mechanics / tools / technology
Methods or systems
Biodynamic agriculture
Holistic management
No-till farming
Permaculture
Regenerative agriculture
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
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