My grandpa had an incredibly dense and foresty garden, big leaves, spiders, black irrigation tubes, and wood structures. He worked as a nursery supply salesman. I think back then, seeds were planted inside me, and it took a while until I realized plants, and really, soil are my purpose.
Turning fruit and animal waste into a rich resource is like magic, yet full of deep ancestral and emerging science. I now partner with hundreds of thousands of composting worms to convert organic juice pulp and dairy manure into biologically abundant compost. I serve local communities by solving problems people see with their plants, but it is most often rooted in soil. I apply solid and liquid compost, among other arborist techniques, to breathe air, water, and life back into soil.
I work a lot with a local chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers, 14+ years now. Working with trees is a truly long-term game, and older members have a wealth of experience in seeing seasons pass with the changes each year brings. I realized I want to be that old guy with 40 or 50 years of experience to share. Great mentors and teachers have shown me that walking a purposeful path of serving the earth and people generally leads to abundance.
I used to be driven to beat capitalism at its own game, to find money first, then build paradise and service businesses. Now I focus on building paradise first, for ourselves and others, and trust that abundance will flow from there. I have friends, especially my wife, who believed in my higher purpose and had patience and kindness to help me find my way. We have a deep history of working within the cycles of life to create abundance for ourselves and all creation. To me, being American means tending to the literal soil of our motherland, which created us. We have an agrarian past and a bright agrarian future. Whether sprouts on the windowsill or small, diverse farms emerging from the industrial era, the America of the future is connected to our home at a deeper, interdependent level.
Turning fruit and animal waste into a rich resource is like magic, yet full of deep ancestral and emerging science. I now partner with hundreds of thousands of composting worms to convert organic juice pulp and dairy manure into biologically abundant compost. I serve local communities by solving problems people see with their plants, but it is most often rooted in soil. I apply solid and liquid compost, among other arborist techniques, to breathe air, water, and life back into soil.
I work a lot with a local chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers, 14+ years now. Working with trees is a truly long-term game, and older members have a wealth of experience in seeing seasons pass with the changes each year brings. I realized I want to be that old guy with 40 or 50 years of experience to share. Great mentors and teachers have shown me that walking a purposeful path of serving the earth and people generally leads to abundance.
I used to be driven to beat capitalism at its own game, to find money first, then build paradise and service businesses. Now I focus on building paradise first, for ourselves and others, and trust that abundance will flow from there. I have friends, especially my wife, who believed in my higher purpose and had patience and kindness to help me find my way. We have a deep history of working within the cycles of life to create abundance for ourselves and all creation. To me, being American means tending to the literal soil of our motherland, which created us. We have an agrarian past and a bright agrarian future. Whether sprouts on the windowsill or small, diverse farms emerging from the industrial era, the America of the future is connected to our home at a deeper, interdependent level.
