Profile
Thank you for taking the time to get to know me a little better. It isn’t often that one gets to openly share oneself with intimate friends, much less with “strangers.” It is my intention to promote the idea of information exchange through sharing knowledge and skills within ourselves. We live in a world where isolationism and reductionism have cornered us into narrowly focused beings. Through experience in community and earth-based living skills, I strongly believe that our energies can regenerate a healthy ecosystem and an abundant life for all creatures. I also believe that we must do this in mother nature’s design coupled with innovative forms of technology. The time for cooperation and desegregation is now. We can solve all of our problems.
Education has become my mantra. I believe it is our job to restructure a dyeing system that is only serving a small portion of our society. We need an army of youth ready to solve the imbalanced resource issues that are plaguing many. We need life-long learning models that connect our children to positive mentors who will teach the students how best to find their inner learner. We must regain the ability to provide our families basic needs through skills application and natural research and development.
Nature is my best teacher. Answers flood my mind as I am inspired by her many moods. The land knows how it best wants you to work with it – when you ask she will always answer. Trust, appreciation, and thankfulness are some of her lessons – ones we are neglecting as humans.
Love is the heart energy that sustains our persistence in the face of a society focused on fear and greed. Optimism and hope spring eternal in love. With a true and simple love for all we can evolve as a species.
Our neural network is expanding to mimic the webs of connections that encircle and join our planet. As our ability to access information in an instant increases we become more closely linked to all humans and cultures of our new world. As we begin to recognize our differences as a rich cultural landscape of expression our ability to communicate and share on all levels will increase across the globe. It is our duty to connect ourselves in many beneficial relationships.
Sharing existence verses hoarding experience.
This has been a call for action. I hope you are inspired to go out and act in a way that will benefit our surrounding ecosystems. Please inform me if you are interested in joining your farm or property into a network of farm educational centers.
QUALITY OF LIFE STATEMENT
Moving with Inspiration
With Nature
With community
Simply
With Freedom
Filled
With Abundance and Love
Name: Ben Jones
Gender: Male
Birthday: March 16th
Status: Engaged
Hometown: Jasper, GA
Industry: Agriculture
Occupation: Teacher and Farmer
School: Virgin Islands Sustainable Farm Institute
Location: Frederiksted, VI
Keys to Success: Life without TV, unbroken long-term contractual relationship, avoidance of premature parenthood
Books: The Good Life, Permaculture: A Designer's Manuel, Edible Forest Gardens, The Wind is My Mother, The Path to Power, Coyote Guide, Holistic Resource Management
Plants and Trees: Hemlock, Moringa, Bamboo, Burdock, Ramps, Turmeric, Garlic. Peppers, Plums, Peaches. Mangosteens, Pomegranates, Miracle Fruit
Outdoors: Free-diving, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, hiking, mountain biking
Musicians: Fela Kuti, Midnite, Bob Marley, Beck, Grateful Dead, The Roots
Life Changing Events:
Pepper farming, Siempre Verde, UFO’s in Ecuador, White horses of STX, Ridge to Reef, Earth-Centered Herbalism, Crimean Peninsula Russian Language Course, Junin Cooper Mine Protest, Sylvie Earthly Augustin, Terra Madre, Jamaica, Camp Laney, Entheogenic Plants
Skype: joebenjones
Phone 404-906-6117
340-473-3155
Address:
PO Box 1007
Frederiksted, USVI
00841
Welcome, Bienvenido, Bem-vindo, Benvenuto, Willkommen
