I’ve got a nice homestead/microvillage going here. Looking for a woman who really wants to get away from it all and live off the
land. I’m 49 with a young heart and an old soul. I’m a tall feller (6’5’’) and athletic. I take care of myself with a simple land-based diet and a tea practice supplemented by
medicinal herbs off the land. I haven’t been to a doctor in a decade. I live on 27 acres adjoining an 18000
acre National Forest in the southern Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina. I have a 100-tree
fruit orchard that consists mainly of Appalachian heirloom apples (doing a ton of canning right now!) with a bunch of other fun fruits too and a vegetable seedbank with 2000 varieties. The land also supports an 80-tree tea garden (Camellia sinensis) and a diverse medicinal herb garden with 20 acres of glorious woods and even some old-growth
trees. 18 springs and three creeks. A house and a piney-hut and a nice red barn. Little
tractor. Full set-up.
Interests & background:
gardening; acoustic
roots guitar fingerpickin; orcharding; old-time country values; foraging; Appalachian and Cherokee Traditional Knowledge; music: old-time, country, blues, bluegrass, Irish, ’folk’, some reggae & rock-n-roll, gospel, Chinese guqin, much traditional & Indigenous music;
food preservation; off-grid; medicinal herbs; writing; retired professor; poetry; full-time homesteader; cooking; hiking; river hanging out;
art; daoism; spirituality; simplicity; chop
wood, carry
water; quiescence; meditation; loving Jesus (in a personal way); heavy drinking or drugs not-so-much-to-none; respect for women and the diversity of cultures; 'country gentleman’; southerner who has been around the world; 'old-stock American’--all European ancestors arrived here between 1628-1752 with a few minor
Native American lines–Irish, Scots-Irish, Swiss-German, English, Cherokee; walking the path day-by-day
I am an ethnobotanist, anthropologist, agroecologist, poet, musician, and teacher. I love to hike and garden and cook and ferment and write and play guitar and lots of fun stuff. I have multiple potential capacities for making a living off-the-land and a vacant house that has historically been lived in by herbalists and orchardists! We can start a conversation. I’m open to visits and even folks who might want to live and study here without a romantic component as well (I was a professor for 11 years and have a PhD in ethnobotany). I take interns sometimes if it’s the right fit or just folks who want to learn more about plants and land-based living.
jrveteto@gmail.com
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