Grew up on an alfalfa farm in West Texas. Graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor and Master of Music degree in piano performance. Lived in New Jersey. Received a Ph.D. in Music Education with emphasis in Piano Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma. Taught at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. Now residing in Georgia, teaching piano privately and at Reinhardt University. Became interested in permaculture about a year and a half ago. Installed a zone 1 intensive urban food 'forest' consisting of 4 apple trees, asian pear, paw paw, muscadine, strawberries, and a number of medicinal herbs with space for annual veggies. I'll be taking a PDC this summer, and the wife and I have the goal of purchasing land for a homestead/grass fed beef operation in the future.