Benji

CURRENT SERVICE

• Currently developing and caretaking a 7 person co-housing community in Fruitland, NC: Blossom Branch Homestead. This project includes land management, tiny house construction, electric & plumbing, community development, human relations, community gardens.

• Yoga instructor and project manager at the Yoga Studies Institute, a global non-profit providing yoga philosophy and practice.

• Seeking land lease to start our Giving Tree Plant Nursery

PAST SERVICE

• Managed five acre homestead in Central Florida; establishing food forests and edible plants systems, tiny home construction, homestead luncheon and tour events and working with intentional community

• 7 years experience working in nursery setting for organic edibles and native plants at A Natural Farm. Development of ANF e-commerce websites, shipping fruit trees and edible plants across the world.

• Consultant & Installation in various landscapes across southeast USA and Costa Rica

• Wilderness Therapy Instructor for at-risk youth

STUDY

• Meridian Yoga I with Science of Self

• Yoga Sutra Challenge, Yoga of Mantra with Michael Johnson

• Yoga Sutra 1-4 courses with Yoga Studies Institute

• Hatha Yoga Pradipika with Yoga Studies Institute

• Lady Niguma Yoga with Yoga Studies Institute

• Participated in two Permaculture Design Certification courses with Graham Bennett and Geoff Lawton