Grew up in the Sandhills area of North Carolina, USA. House with no running water, bathroom.. wood heater. Worked in Tobacco. Software engineer by profession.

At end of career bought 11 acres of only recently molested longleaf pine/turkey oak property. Have been working last 4 years to eradicate scrub oak trees and have burned property a couple of times. Have been recently become aware of something of the history and significance of the longleaf pine ecosystem and it's destruction. I want to restore this.. but also make it a comfortable and productive. I believe that this will be a tall order.

Planted cowpeas and dug a ditch and buried rotting oak trees from the oak ridge.