Ep 10 INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY FARMING & TINY HOUSE LIVING: Sharing life with Beth Romaker and Spencer Crawford

Meet the strangers-turned-landmates we are experimenting with in intentional community farming. Beth and Spencer towed a tiny house onto our farmland in September of this year in exchange for labor on our farm. How to trust and flow with a life shift that like that, keeping a "what if" mind during the whole process. Imagine transitioning your life into a tiny house and moving it around nomadically. Beth and Spencer share their love and wisdom of biodiversity, the merits of native plants, how to think about invasive species (including humans) and ways you can show up to an intentional relationship with the natural world.

About Beth & Spencer:

Beth Romaker is a woods walker, food grower, tree planter, and homemaker. She has worked in the field of forestry with the nature conservancy, the national parks service, and the forest ecosystem monitoring cooperative doing inventory and monitoring work on long term ecological forest plots as well as forest restoration. She has also worked on various organic farms and most recently, a native tree and wildflower nursery.

Spencer Crawford is a naturalist, forager, and avian field technician with a special focus on grassland breeding birds. Most recently, he worked for the Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program studying Saltmarsh Sparrow and Seaside Sparrow demographics for two years. This upcoming spring he will be working on a demography study of the Golden-winged Warbler and Blue-winged Warbler.

Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com