Grew up in the countryside of northern germany close to the baltic sea. Joined the boy scouts, carpenter apprenticeship after school. Then studied geography. Since 2007 working as a biodynamic oat breeder at the Dottenfelderhof in Bad Vilbel.

During working on my Phd thesis (it was about erosion and phosphorus losses) I wanted to write a small chapter about alternative agriculture practices. Then I found books from Mollison and Fukuoka and since then it got me. This is the serious story, but there is also a more fun story: A friend of mine is a big fan of zombie movies so I gave him the 'Zombie survival guide' as a present. He then gave me a real survival guide and in this guide Bill Mollisons permaculture was referenced as a way of survival agriculture. So in a way you can say that zombies brought me to permaculture. Both stories are true, they happened at the same time.

At the moment besides my job as an oat-breeder I try to develop a 2000 m² apple orchard (Streuobstwiese) into a more diverse place with vegetable garden. I just finished the online pdc with Geoff Lawton and he encouraged us students to join the community on permacutureglobal.