I was born in East Lyme, CT during a raging thunderstorm; where my Dad’s side of the family had a family farm- White Gate Farm. Almost immediately after my birth, my family and I moved to the mountains of Vershire, Vermont. I stayed there until around third grade; living on a farm-school called The Mountain School; where my Mom taught agriculture and farming skills to Juniors in highscool. Shortly after third grade and my parents divorcing, we all moved back to Connecticut where I grew up in a small shoreline town. The rest of my youthful years were spent traveling between both of my parents' houses in Mystic and Old Lyme on a weekly basis.
    Shortly after graduating high school, I packed up everything I owned and started traveling across the country. It's funny looking back now- I started with the concept that people are defined by the environments we're in and the people we're around- and I just wanted to find out who I was without either or those being constant. And of course, I also wanted to distance myself from CT and its regulations & capitalism-imbued mentalities.

    I started by traveling to Maine, where I ran a homestead and briefly studied herbalism with an old flame of mine named Chrissy. From there I continued down the Southern coastline, freelancing and doing carpentry, building and maintaining gardens & greenhouses for money. As I traveled I explored the national and state parks while designing an NGO (Non Government Organization) I planned to try and create in collaboration with some kind of college.

    As my travels continued to the NorthWestern corner of the states, I found myself living in the temperate desert of Washington State- the eastern side of the mountains. After persuing more of the trades route and doing professional tile-laying and carpentry for about 10 months, I attended The Evergreen State College for 6 months. It was here that I started up and expanded the NGO I was working on- a project I called called Project: New World. The organization consisted of 5 branches; each in charge of shifting a different element of community such as sustainable technologies or resource security. As time passed we began to hold meetings once every week and talked about all the various problems we were seeing in the world; how they connected to the social and community structures of humans… and most importantly how to go about solving them. However, after 6 months of utilizing business and capital-based priorities for creating that change (I guess you could say I was following subconscious habits from the NorthEast back home), I quickly realized that it was one doomed for failure. Not only did this path not feed my soul, but the beurocratic red tape of working an NGO did very little to actually help the communities I intended to aid…. and the organization itself was quickly becoming corrupted and jaded by the very people donating funds and resources to us.

    Shortly after leaving, I came across my first mentor in Centralia, WA- a whimsical, nature-infused man named Bee who introduced me to permaculture, stewardship, and symbiotically existing with ecosystems around us as humans and creatures. In tandem with Bee's teachings, I began following three part-time mentors: a syntropic farmer from California, a full-time horse nomad in the mountains of Idaho, and a stationary horse- carried steward in the mountains of Oregon.​

    After a while, I packed my belongings and traveled up to the mountains of Montana, missing the quiet solace of the mountains & wanting to start something community-based on a smaller and more intimate scale with the locals. I arrived in the early fall, collaborating with a local homestead and helping them build aomething called a “chanampa” on site (if you’d like to read more about what a chanampa is you can look at my blog posted here.) while helping them build a log cabin from Ponderosa Pine trees- all processed using hand tools and chainsaws.

    That winter my dwelling ran out of firewood- and I spent half of the season training and living out of my car in the mountains.
    Around the beginning of Spring, I moved my way back towards the SouthEast and found myself in the mountains of North Carolina- right on the Kentucky border- where I studied under a permaculturist and U.S historian named David and his son Phillip. The two of them managed native nurseries and gardens throughout their properties while nurturing the surrounding wilderness’. Here I came to know the true history of the United States; how the captains of industry here established almost every town as resource extractions sites. There’s much much more to that history but I’ll keep it short for the sake of this page. But with this knowledge I started to see the patterns of how our culture in the U.S has subconsciously perpetuated that war culture of raping & pillaging within our communities and our people. The way our school systems operate and how we raise our children, the way we treat each other, even the way we percieve the world around us. There’s a lot more to that part too, but I’m trying to keep this short- I’m always happy to talk more about it in person :)

    Flash forward to the present, and my mission has evolved into my own practice and technique of regeneration & community strengthening- one that I’ve come to call “Syntropic Sylvaflux”. Syntropic refers to the term Syntropy; a phenomenon found both in physics and biology. In physics, it describes the tendency for energy to concentrate 
    This process, for me, would be a full-time, live-or-die state of being; as the majority of my warmth, food, water, shelter, medicine, self-care, and mental care would all be co-dependent on the act of moving and interacting with the environment around me. As I make food, medicine, materials, and crafts from the landscapes around me, I would also listen, learn & observe the state of everything around me. I would stay at each site for roughly 6-8 months at a time, and each time I moved I would spread native grass or wildflower seeds on the barren footprint of where I camp used to be- with 4 syntropic gardens set up next to where the camp used to be. As I work at each of these sites, I would host classes that bring the community together to participate and learn in each step of creating those gardens.(as of 2025 I live in a house in Idyllwild, CA and am already doin this :D ) 

    Once set up at each site, I would live a life of planting, harvesting, maintaining, and adding to the surrounding landscapes; constantly documenting, removing invasive species, expanding ecosystems, and caring for the landscapes I occupy. As the season continues, I would bring nearby town/ community members together to install passive, native foodscapes and food forests in their communities as well. (You can take a look at some. (you can see the projectsI’m already working on here.)

    I would rotate between properties & forests on a rough 6-8 month cycle, and make sure to stay at one site for at least 4 months throughout the whole winter. I would move almost constantly through the rest of the seasons, so I would take this time to craft, repair, maintain myself and my body and spirit. 

I wanted to create a term for the people that I look up to and inspired myself to be for many years; people that practice, perfect, and actively live their lives as what I have come to call "Nomadic Stewards". A Nomadic Steward is one who observes; who begins a life that revolves around living symbiotically with surrounding landscapes; responsibly harvests and spreads wild foods and medicines and materials; one who travels to various villages, towns, and communities spreading seeds of knowledge, food, medicine, wisdom, history, and observation. A Nomadic Steward is one who dreams to embody presence and peace while training the mind, body and spirit to adapt to the environments and factrs  required to live the life of a nomad that stewards, cares for, and actively benefits their surrounding environments. There are many people that I have looked up to and followed over the last couple of years that embody this very definition; and as such I've included their socials below :) CHECK THEM OUT!!

@michaelkennedyridge - a full-time horse nomad that spreads native seeds and foods and medicines through the Oregon Wilderness.

@mountain.manders - a woman with profound poetry and craftsmanship and basketry, she lives full-time in the wilderness of Oregon in a canvas wall tent. 

@solarpunkfarmer - A master practitioner of syntropic farming, permaculture, polyculture, and an overall really cool guy from California.

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As for me, I've been living the lifestyle of a Nomadic Steward for about 3 years now; after 4 years of traveling across the country and learning from various mentors. And even still... my journey is just beginning to sprout from the original seed of thought of seeking something different. Which would eventually lead me to this lifestyle; this purpose. And that being said, I'm still just baaarely starting the journey.

 

And over the course of years of experimenting, failing, and learning; I've made it my mission to dedicate myself to establishing and caring for landscapes and ecosystems I occupy while installing passive food systems, food forests, and syntropic gardens for the communities and towns I work with- healing, expanding, improving and observing the landscapes I occupy while spreading wild, native seeds and plants.