37M, Preserving Heritage, Looking for Like-Minded Person (Currently NJ, Planning to Move to KY)

I'm a bit of a black sheep on the forum - I'm more a historian, heritage preserver and community organizer than farmer. Still, I adore simple self-sufficient rural lifestyle, and this is what I'm going forwards to. Last three years I lived in Italy, and there I was volunteering for local museums and cultural associations to preserve and popularize local history - now it's finally time to do the same here in America, and I'm very happy to finally return here.

Right now I live in Southern Jersey near Philly; next year planning to move to Kentucky, but for a right person those plans can be corrected.

I'm 37, man, average build, in good shape, excercise regularly, drink little, never smoked, never took any substances. No kids, never married.

I value a lot simple traditional lifestyle, outdoor activities, simple food (beans, beef, tomatoes, bread and black coffee are most of my ration for years), not into fancy stuff or what socilolgists call *looking in the dictionary* conspicuous consumption. Still, having nice small pelasures in life is good, I think I balance well from not falling into some sort of hermit

I am strongly community-minded, and value things like honesty, loyalty, sincerity, friendship, neighborhood. I do my best to treat people with equal respect unless they give a very reasonable cause to not do it. Especially I have respect for those who work by their hands, and not in office cubicles, and I did have many jobs of all kinds, including basic manual labor too.

While I can't pretend that I'm some great farmer, I do have experience in various related jobs, from carign for horses (not riding though) to gardening, growing vegetables, cooking, first aid and medicine in general, some carpentry and brick construction, partially joinery, woodcarving and plumbing.

Ex medieval fencing instructor and fencing club president; learned this all after 30.

I like adventures and often do risky things but for the right person I can be more careful. While I'm by myself though my risks are only my own

Like to go barefoot, but rarely do it these days, especially in suburbs of NJ.

Curious fact - I don't like beaches; seas and rivers are cool though.

Here's me these days on the attached photo.
Photo from green screen testings for my history themed videos, but those are my actual daily clothes.

Hi how are you?
I enjoyed reading your profile and I would love to get to know you better sometime..
Leelu

You could try Michigan :) there’s a pretty cool group of historic preservationists here.