I've been shooting my mouth, or maybe my keyboard, off on these forums for awhile now, and it is past time for me to make a proper introduction.
Hello, everyone.
My name is Lee Einer, and I live in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where the Great Plains meet the Sangre de Cristo mountains. I am a 55 year old, recently divorced, certificated permaculture designer.
No farm, I live in town. My back yard, five years ago, was a dirt parking lot, used by a former resident who ran a home business as an auto mechanic. The soil, when I started, was compacted enough to bounce a pick. I have never tilled it, although I now broadfork in the spring.
My little city lot is home to three varieties of apple, a saturn peach, golden currants, two varieties of gooseberry, a medlar, a jostaberry, a Turkish tree hazel, black Spanish grapes, purple asparagus, goji berries, goumi berries. a mess of walking onions and garlic chives and a whole lot more.
At present, I am chasing grant money to fund our local Farm to Restaurant Project, which you can read about here -
http://www.lvfarmconnection.org I also work as an IT tech, keeping the computer infrastructure going at a local charter school. The school is closed for the summer, and I am footloose and fancy free.
It's a good life.
I have really enjoyed reading what you all have to say.
