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Retired software engineer living on social security and travelling about the country.  My ideal plan is to have a small shop where I can build and repair things along with a garden, some chickens and beehives.  I like to build buildings, furniture, restore tractors, garden, etc.  I do Red Cross disaster Relief and hold the Amateur Radio License KI6DIU.

I grew up on a NE Missouri farm.  My mother maintained a large garden and over the years I have had my own gardens.  I started with a flat space with everything all in a row and eventually moved to boxed beds with intensive plantings.  I have chemical sensitivies so have always avoided chemical quick fixes.  I have studied permaculture and have used some of the ideas in my own garden designs. 

I am currently getting ready to move to the Ozarks (near Gainsville) where I will have the space for a garden, bees, and chickens.  With a new fresh start I want to learn more about the application of Permaculture.  I have a good friend who invited me to come visit several years ago and I wound up spending six weeks on his Ozark Homestead.  I returned this last summer and spent over three months there where I meet several interesting people. 
 
I have the place picked out and have a builder ready to build a shop so I can move some stuff there.  I plan to build a smallish house over the next couple of years.  There is room for a decent garden, some chickens, and bees.  A year round stream that joins Brant Creek is just below the house site.  The land is north of Gainsville near the the Zanoni Post Office.

For the last several years I have been travelling about the country in a travel trailer, spending time at various places.  I spent a good part of a winter and spring doing tractor and machinery repair on an organic vegetable farm in Hollister, CA.  I spent time on a rare breeds homestead in North East Missouri.  I have spent time at my son's place in Asheville, NC and in Spokane, WA along with several other places including a fireworks stand in Texas.  It has been fun but it now time for a garden, chickens, and bees.