Chris Gilligan

Office Manager: 2008-2012

Chris first visited Moonshadow in 1999 with his daughter’s girl scout troop, and was fascinated with the land, buildings and people. He returned several times with his son and daughter over the years, but remained on the periphery until 2007, when he offered to revamp the SVI website. That project allowed him to visit more frequently, and he became involved in SVI’s building projects and events. Chris is fascinated by the social and political aspects of community living, and is active in SVI’s educational outreach programs. Chris has a BA in Humanites from the local university, and is a video editor and web developer with clients in America and Canada. He enjoys cycling and bicycle maintenance, is returning to rock climbing, and occasionally jumps on a skateboard.

Asha Ironwood

Founding Co-Director, Founding Chair of the Board, and former Director of Moonshadow Programs and Media Rights

Asha has been working in the arts since the early age of four, singing, dancing and acting her way out of trouble. She went to Interlochen Arts Academy for high school and then on to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received a BFA in film and television. She spent her four years in NYC studying documentary film and organizing campus and city-wide environmental and social justice education. After graduating from NYU, Ashley founded MEDIA RIGHTS, a small non profit production entity and project of the Sequatchie Valley Institute at Moonshadow. Asha has done video work on a wide range of issues including the resistance at the nearby Watts Bar nuclear facility, the hydroelectric development of James Bay in Canada, and has created an hour-long documentary video, “Invasion of the Chip Mills.” MEDIA RIGHTS has recorded actions against the desecration of Mount Graham in Arizona, for the release of political prisoner Leonard Peltier, and against the corporate control of our U.S. government. Asha moved to Moonshadow at the beginning of 1995. The Sequatchie Valley has offered her a place to really feel the effects of the environment she has been actively working to protect since 1990. She has taken certification courses in Permaculture and Ecovillage Design. Bringing art and media into the environmental community and environmental education to the community at large has been her long-term mission. When Sequatchie Valley Institute was officially formed in 1996, she became a Co-director and the Founding Chair of the Board. Her activism has recently been focused on raising loving and happy kids: Sage Indigo Ironwood, born on the Spring equinox of 2002 followed by his sister, Anakeesta, born on the Spring equinox of 2005. The three of them moved to Colorado in the fall of 2009 to live with Asha’s parents. She continues to hold Moonshadow and SVI in her heart.

2009 staff

Randall Tomlinson

Head Gardener

Randall grew up in Gainesville, Florida and attended the New College of Florida in Sarasota. Since leaving school, Randall has been attempting to reconcile the way he has come to view this universe with the way he lives his life. He has worked on organic farms from Florida to California and is just realizing how little he knows about growing and preparing food. He came to Moonshadow to learn to garden and live life in a way that minimizes his negative impact in the world and increases his ability to help things change for the better. Living lightly with the land and becoming a part of the great circle of everything that allows the planet and the universe to perpetuate itself in such a beautiful manner are his main focus. Randall is so happy and exhilarated to be in a place that provides such strong examples and experiences of everything which he has come to want to learn. He has a deep abiding love for nearly everything, especially that which requires a little hard work to make possible and this love seemingly increases every moment with no end in sight.

Tricia Woolbright

Gardener

Tricia grew up with everyone around her knowing she was an animal lover, it was hard to miss a little girl with a bird, iguana, and dog on her or trailing behind her at all times. Tricia has a B.A. in Psychology and is an Ex-Peace Corps Volunteer (Namibia 2001-03). She was successful with various projects throughout the region including women’s civics’ and business projects, public library creation, water and sanitation, learner centered education, HIV/Aids out reach and many other projects. Just at the end of PC she was asked to be a consultant to the Ministry of Environment and Tourism – creating a program to teach job skills to conservation workers, and affecting policy for ex-combatants and formerly exiled freedom fighters which were reintegrating back into society to gain higher education.  She improved on her skills in  grant writing and managing of every aspect of a large national training project for conservation.  Her work allowed her to stay in many remote places throughout Namibia and experience life in every major culture group throughout the country and making many friends as well as learning subsistence farming techniques and tribal community customs. When Tricia came back to the US she worked for a few years in various aspects of the health care field, then moved on to care for rehabilitating elephants with the Elephant Sanctuary in TN. Tricia is currently working toward learning everything she can about growing food, living with a lighter footprint on the world, and becoming completely self sustaining as well has helping others learn these tricks too. She works with the , giving garden materials and teaching food production to low income families in Central Missouri.

2008 staff

Alex Fear

Inn Keeper and Eldercare

Alex Fear was born in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia in 1978. Since he was a toddler he has had an immense infatuation with the natural world. Trusting in himself to be autonomous as it concerns his education, Alex withdrew from school in the ninth grade never to go back. His journey of self-education has introduced him to many aspects of political and social thought. These include philosophy, poetry (which he enjoys writing), anti-war activism and working as an editor for a non-profit literature magazine. He has worked construction for over a decade, staying within the walls of the working-class world which he will always be a part of. This labor-intensive but mandatory type of work helped to prepare him for another step in his journey of self-education: the DIY builder who uses natural and salvaged material in order to minimize human consumption and maintain sustainability. He has been involved in this type of work for almost five years now, beginning on his dad’s land in Fairmount, GA. There he also maintained an organic garden and studied a variety of subjects. There are no words for how thankful he is to Moonshadow for giving him the opportunity to expand the power of his thought.

2007 staff

Beau After-Garrett

“BEau the Builder” – 2007 and winter of 2008

Beau Etter-Garrette studied community and environmental living at a small private college in the White Mountains of New Hampshire not far from where he was raised. After spending a couple years living and playing in Montana he came back home and soon found out about the Sequatchie Valley Institute. He came to Moonshadow in the Spring as an intern and found the place to be exactly what he needed at this time in his life. After spending a good deal of time working with Patrick on natural building projects around Moonshadow, Beau became confident enough to accept the role of a staff builder for SVI. Beau’s future plans are always the same – leave it up to what ever comes along, everything always works out. He enjoys extreme adventures alone in the woods and long hikes up the creek to mysterious places. Beau also loves living within the community here at Moonshadow, working hard, playing with stone, cob and wood and just simply loves to live and smile a lot.  

Julius Carus

Head Gardener – late Summer / Fall 2007 Jules has been gardening organically for more than 10 years. Really it all started when she helped break ground for Dunbar Springs neighborhood permaculture community garden in Tucson and she was amazed after witnessing the hard caliche soil transformed and neighbors growing food together in the desert. Since then, she has created many urban gardens in spaces previously growing crops of grass, and has had a chance to practice Biointensive growing methods. She has a BS degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona and has completed courses in Permaculture Design for Drylands, Biointensive Sustainable Mini-Farming, and the Soil Food Web (Compost Tea). Most recently, Jules spent a year at Earthaven Ecovillage, enjoying the community, apprenticing with Chuck Marsh in the Useful Plants Permaculture Nursery, and working with Arjuna da Silva on “Leela”, her earthen house. She came to Moonshadow in May as an intern and is joyful to have the opportunity to take more of a significant role in the gardens. She loves the community and that she is able to be so immersed in growing, harvesting, cooking, and preserving food and to work and play in such a beautiful place on earth truly all a blessing! She also enjoys hiking, fiber arts, drumming, dancing, and studying natural foods and healing.

2007 Interns

Diana

Diana was found by Patrick, Ashley, Sage and Anakeesta in an art gallery in NYC. They decided they just couldn’t live without her and invited her to spend the summer working with them in their home. She is now Anakeesta’s favorite ring-around-the-rosie partner. Through her experience at Moonshadow, Diana has overcome her fear of creepy crawlers and poison ivy. She has a new-found love of cooking, and now understands the evils of hydrogenated oils and corn syrup. Diana hopes to one day write documentary films that will help with the awakening of global consciousness. She is currently on leave from Hampshire College and plans to study in an eco-village in India for the Spring of 2008.

Aurelia

Aurelia is the daughter of Board Member, Cerulean.

Chris

2006 staff

(in addition to the core)

Melissa Calhoun and Brian Geier

Co-Head Gardeners

Melissa Louise Calhoun grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta and was ready to leave them by the time she graduated with a degree in Biology and a heavy disillusioned heart. Identifying as an environmentalist while inside the academic world lead her down avenues of politics, research, and bureaucracy toward burn out, frustration and impotence. So she decided to learn some real skills (like how to grow food!) and to attempt to transform her life time and opportunity to cultivate real appreciation of this earth that she felt such a strong desire to protect. Since 2002 she has practiced the art of food and herb cultivation in maine, north carolina, indiana, poop, and now tennessee, in both small and large scales, organically, chemical free, and experimentally biodynamic, as an apprentice and independently. Melissa would like to become more attuned to the healing herbs and wild plants to find out what SHE can do for THEM. She is excited that there is so much still to learn. SVI has provided her with the opportunity to live closer to her family in the south while being blessed with the breathtaking beauty of the valley, the forest, and the landscape here that those who’ve gone before have lovingly prepared with their sweat, hands, and vision. Moonshadow is her daily reminder of the beauty that humans can sustain when they’ll cooperate with their ‘still small voice’ rather than closing their minds and hearts. She is moreover thankful and amazed to be sharing the Head Gardener position (and yet another garden) with her loving friend Brian. Brian is a hoosier by birth, but happy to make a home here in the rich woods of east tennessee. once, he went to brasil, and landless peasants who radically took back land from the rich sparked his interest in agriculture and land-based life. later he studied sustainable agiculture at the university of maine, and though he gained a lot of book knowledge, he didn’t learn how he could be a farmer, so he went to work on farms after he graduated. experiments in animal power, permaculture and community building, art collectives, and anarchist organizing permeated his time on farms in maine, north carolina, and indiana, and he liked all of those things, except maybe animal powered farming. his current interests and work revolve around growing food, making gardens productive and fun to be in, learning forest farming, studying the woods, brewing, healing from a bad car wreck, music, paying attention to mysterious things, teaching kids, and building a sustainable community where he can stay for a long time. he finds moonshadow a very exciting and empowering place to be right now, and is looking toward the future with his head held high.

nothing Jones

Office Manager

Nada Jones is a captivating, intoxicating individual. Around her birds suddenly appear and choruses of angels sing hymns to her bonny face. Seriously though, Nada first found Moonshadow in the Summer of 2002 and returned as an intern several times thereafter. Bradley and Nada were married at Moonshadow in the Summer of 2004. After a year-long stint in San Francisco, they decided to join the SVI staff and settle down in the Valley with their son, Logan. When she’s not doing office manager stuff or mothering, she likes to make jewelry, do needlework, and daydream about Ulinawi, their future community project which is a wooded walk away from Moonshadow.

Bradley Jones

Staff Builder (spring), Inn Keeper (late summer/fall)

Bradley Jones is a sith-hippie, green nihilist, and has succumbed to the doublethink ways of the deep ecologist. Bradley was born and raised in Mississippi, dabbled in the West Coast, but has come back to roost in the mixed mesophytic forest of our own Cumberland biogem. He tries to talk just barely more than necessary. He has been an intern or staff on and off for many years. Bradley started out the season as a staff builder and has taken on the inn keeper role where he is better able to hang out with his son, Logan.

Beau After-Garrett

“BEau the Builder” (late summer/fall)

Beau Etter-Garrette studied community and environmental living at a small private college in the White Mountains of New Hampshire not far from where he was raised. After spending a couple years living and playing in Montana he came back home and soon found out about the Sequatchie Valley Institute. He came to Moonshadow in the Spring as an intern and found the place to be exactly what he needed at this time in his life. After spending a good deal of time working with Patrick on natural building projects around Moonshadow, Beau became confident enough to accept the role of a staff builder for SVI. Beau’s future plans are always the same – leave it up to what ever comes along, everything always works out. He enjoys extreme adventures alone in the woods and long hikes up the creek to mysterious places. Beau also loves living within the community here at Moonshadow, working hard, playing with stone, cob and wood and just simply loves to live and smile a lot.

Ashley Haley Baggett

Inn Keeper (early summer)

Ashley was born on a farm in Michigan from where she and her family left after a couple years and moved to the suburbs until she was able to leave on her own. Her strong pull for something different brought her to Washington state where she lived for 6 months living in and out of the woods. This was just the beginning of her excitement for what the world has to offer. She jumped in and out of college and then realized that it was just not where her heart was at the moment. So she kept traveling and went to a couple extended herbology classes, studied natural healing from all walks of life in Belize, and then massage therapy school in attempts to learn more of how the body works. After much pressure from others to get a “steady job” so that she could make her dream of living on land a reality, she decided to get away from a lot of those voices. In January she came to Moonshadow after seeing flyers on the wall of the health food store where she worked and stories from others, fell in love with so much, and moved here in February. She is so incredibly grateful for the beauty of the land, the inhabitants, the discoveries of herself, and the opportunities that came from here living here. After taking on the role of inn keeper for a time this summer, Ashley is now continuing to travel and has found a love for art in many forms that she looks forward to learning more about from the places that her heart is leading her to.

Frances Johnson

Inn Keeper (spring)

Frances, who grew up in and around our nation’s capitol (smirk), is a self-taught vegetable eater. After dropping out of a prestigious hippie college in order to bake more bread, she now celebrates her status as a freelance fermenter always in transit from one hilly place to another. Perhaps she is a true culture junkie at heart. After working as the inn keeper in early spring, she traveled, came back to present at Food for Life and is now studying nutrition in Northern CA.

2005 & prior years

Michael Faulkner has had a love of the natural world from a very early age, having grown up on various farms and homesteads in rural Mississippi. He had been living in North Carolina for almost the past 10 years, working on a few farms and many gardens from then until now. He attended the North Carolina School of Holistic Herbalism in 04′, in hopes of further honing his understanding of the plant kingdom, as well as providing himself with some real “health insurance”, seeing the interconnectedness of all life and the crucial role plant medicine has played in human health for the majority of its history. He believes that the sickness of the planet right now reflects the sickness of a species that willfully disconnects itself from the natural rhythms and cycles of the earth, and wants his life’s work to be helping to reconnect people (and himself!) with Nature. He enjoys playing music, reading & writing, cooking, and do-it-yourself living. He is a practitioner of Tai Chi and Ba Gua Chung, two of the three mystical and “internal” martial arts of China. He is interested in Chinese medicine as well, and is a deep believer in the intuitive, inherent intelligence of all living beings, especially the plants. He is very happy to call Moonshadow his home for a spell.

David Del Vecchio

Head Gardener

Since 1994 David has actively pursued permaculture-type solutions to saving the human species from destroying itself. In 1995 he released himself from graduate studies in Athens, GA. During this time David had advanced from backyard gardener to head apprentice at Sustenance Farm, in Bear Creek, NC where he helped grow food and herbs for a variety of markets. Learning first-hand the homesteading lifestyle designed around permaculture principles ignited the passion to create an alternative way of living, while still dependant on a system that he believes is epehermal. The world of renewable energy pulled David from his love of soil to become the Installations Manager of Solar Village Institute, a dealer/installer of photovoltaic, wind, and hydro-electric generation systems in Saxapahaw, NC. By 2001 David had some free time and money to travel cross country and visit farm and communities where permaculture is being studied and applied. The extended visit at Moonshadow convinced him to apply for the head gardener position in 2002 and leave his home in the piedmont of North Carolina. David is a teacher of gardening, natural building, spiritual yoga, and renewable energy. He is also a budding mandolin player and natural-leaven breadbaker.

Allison Cerulli

Assistant Director of Education

Allison is a third year intern and staff (part-time office manager) at Moonshadow. After receiving a degree in Ecology at the University of Georgia, she desired to learn first-hand the theories about natural living systems and conservation and apply that information to an ecosystem she could watch change and flux over the seasons. After living at Moonshadow in the last years and loving the simple, sustainable lifestyle and then working down in the rainforests of Oaxaca, Mexico helping people sustainably use their forests to support themselves, she is inspired to continue living lightly within the natural world with respect and reverence. She has a strong desire to offer society working examples of more sustainable lifestyle options by living, working, and teaching by example. She is building her knowledge and skills about permaculture design and natural building by spending most of her time working in the gardens here at Moonshadow and is studying permaculture and natural building techniques. She beleives that permaculture and natural building are two powerful outlets to help link the environmental movement to mainstream society, offering people ecological and economic solutions for land use isues and durable, efficient home construction. Allison is also a singer/songwriter looking to meet musicians intersted in making and recording environmentally and socially active music to help get positive, inspiring words out to people. She wants to use soulful, powerful and fun lyrics and melodies to transcend musical and cultural boundaries to reach many different types of people.

Interns 2003

Bradley Jones returned for another session at Moonshadow. We've lost count of how many times Bradle has come to join us. He was a great help during the building workshop, and he left Moonshadow for a fall backpacking wilderness trek to Alaska. He's been back to visit again since the summer, and I am sure we will see him again as soon as his shoulder heals from surgery. Heal well, Bradley! We're thinking good thoughts! Emily Jernigan joined us for part of the summer to help with the gardens and natural building. She is from Tallahassee, Florida, and is now a freshman at Warren-Wilson College near Asheville, NC, focusing on environmental studies. Emily could always be counted on to step up and pitch in, defying all societal gender roles! You go, girl! Jake Fulmer, from Ooltewah, TN, came to Moonshadow primarily to work and learn in the gardens. He is willing to learn any skills old or new in the area of self-sufficient living. He's been working as a cook for several years while taking classes at Chattanooga State Technical Community college, and we are definitely enjoying the meals he has produced here. Besides cooking, he's a great musician and likes to read and spend time in the woods. Next year he will be our head gardener! Karla Archambeault returned for her second internship at Moonshadow. She was a great asset while she was here, putting together a building workshop preperation video to show folks attending the workshop what happened before they arrived in order to prepare the building. Karla is now teaching at a Waldorf School - we look forward to having her back so she can integrate all she's learned with our work here. Nathan Burrell, a student from Virginia Commonwelath University, completed a school accredited internship at Moonshadow this summer. He received credit for his degree by helping on various projects while preparing for the building workshop where he really shined as a natural builder. Tracey Brockwell, a Montessori assistant teacher from Richmond, VA, came to intern with Nathan and brought their daughter Zora Felicity. Sage finally had a playmate his own age, and it was constant entertainment to watch them learn to share and play together. It was such a pleasure to have Tracey, Nathan and Zora here, as they offered such support to all of us during the full-swing production of the natural building workshop. Brian Brown, a video production major at Ohio University, came to work and live with us between semesters. Despite his lack of experience in gardening and building, he fit in rapidly. We especially appreciated his gentle acceptance of the ups and downs of daily life and his positive outlook. He never complained and was always ready to try something new, from sawing and stacking lumber to pulling weeds for hours or rebuilding the outhouse. He made a major contribution to SVI by starting to create a video about our work here. He left with a load of footage and will edit the video as part of his classwork. We are looking forward to seeing it and we hope to have Brian back with us again! Sam Davis came to us from Chattanooga for the month of April. His special interests are in sustainable living and gardening. Here are a few excerpts from his final evaluation. "My favorite activity was guided wandering in the garden with David, because there I learned the most. I gained the beginnings of the skills that it will take to start letting the earth teach me about growing. I also enjoyed building the stone wall in the orchard, where I could see the powerful and beautiful result of a well thought-out push of human energy. Before this, I wondered how I could ever hope to work on such a project. I see now that it is possible. What I liked least was eating the main meal at 3 pm. That was a hard row to hoe! I found that the "leaders" were all competent and approachable, through "teaching without preaching". I always felt a welcome guest, whose questions were worth answering. I did not learn how to grow all my own food nor how to financially support a homestead, since Moonshadow does not strive for these goals. I'll use the things I learned at Moonshadow to figure this out for myself. What I most enjoyed about the facilities was the big house and extensive library, which provided general inspiration on actin' right as a world citizen. Least-hmm, how about a lack of sun for the solar shower...". Thanks Sam, for all your help and companionship. We miss you! Jake Fulmer, from Ooltewah, TN, came to Moonshadow primarily to work and learn in the gardens. He is willing to learn any skills old or new in the area of self-sufficient living. He's been working as a cook for several years while taking classes at Chattanooga State Technical Community college, and we are definitely enjoying the meals he has produced here. Besides cooking, he's a great musician and likes to read and spend time in the woods.

Interns 2002 Season

ALLISON CERULLIjust graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in plant ecology. She enjoys traveling and spent a substantial part of college partcipating in study abroad trips to New Zealand and Costa Rica where she focused on ecological field work, conservation issues and sustainable harvesting. She is also extremely interested in environmental education for people of all ages. She hopes to learn more about these issues while here. Nick Ulrich, from Austin TX, lived with a group of friends in the central city on about 1/3 acre until his journey began here at Moonshadow. Among other things, this group is working to create cardens, to implement rainwater and greywater harvesting systems, and to reduce waste by composting as much as possible. Nick will not be going back immediately to rejoin the Austin community. Moonshadow was his first stop on a tour of sustainable communities, which will hopefully take him through Central and South America and Europe. He hopes to learn about how to earn a living and not work for money. Angela Entzelis a second-time intern at the Sequatchie Valley Institute. Angela's main intrests at Moonshadow are in agroecology and ethnobotany. She loves to travel, read, cook, and dance and has an interest in performance art, photography, political theater, and permaculture. Michael Yoken is a student at Colorado College and is originally from the suburbs of New York City. He has been playing guitar for about a decade and loves to sing. He has traveled around the world learning about other cultures and ways of life and has been inspired to learn more about living sustainably on the planet. His focus while here was permaculture. He is also interested in environmental education, construction, and alternative energy. He ultimately wants to help teach other people how to live lighter on the earth. Bim Krumhanslis currently a junior at Colorado College where he studies biology. He enjoys meditating, working outside, and playing music. He is passionate about god, love, nature, and the laws of thermodynamics.     Vincent Trottiercame all the way from Montréal, Canada, to stay with us this summer. He plays the guitar, practices yoga, and loves to learn. He is interested in permaculture and natural building and attended the ten-day natural building course near Ashville, NC. Karla Achambeaultis a friendly Libra from Connecticut who loves to laugh a lot. She has a degree in communications, and is interested in community outreach and environmental education through media projects. While at Moonshadow Karla made a comprehensive video about our food for life conference to help media rights document one of our best workshops of the year. She is passionate about wanting to make a difference in the world through whatever work she does. Alec Clevengergrew up fairly desensitized to the true nature of the world around him, but has since become aware of what appears to be a continuous and worsening degradation of the planet and all life. He has a calling to work towards improving our situation, living a good and decent life while trying to help others and create more happiness and freedom for everyone possible. So, his interest in working and learning at Moonshadow is a major part of this goal and has been a wonderful experience - deeply impressive and touching, fun, and instructive. His plan is to be a living example of one of the possible ways of living lightly on earth and demonstrate that there are always options and possibilities for doing better. Amy Burtaineloves to read to others and to be read to. She loves this planet. She and Ashley studied together at Interlochen arts academy and have always thought the other was just the coolest! Amy has spent quite a bit of time in brazil, is now living in Austin, TX, studying theater education and teaching at a Waldorf school - but she imagines that the Sequatchie valley will someday be her permanent home! She loves her dog, Che, a lot. Bradley Joneswas raised in Mississippi, grew up angry and angsty in suburbia, eventually started wwoofing (willing workers on organic farms)... Life's been much better since then.

Office Manager 2001 Season

LEAH ASHLEY is a professional student of various colleges and universities. Her interests and passions include literature, religion and history with a current emphasis on the history of the anglican church and social justice issues. Leah is the proud new aunt of baby Josanna, who will grow up to know and love nature as much, or more, than her aunt does. Leah is the office manager for SVI.

Interns 2001 Season

MEGAN SHEPHERD came to Moonshadow in April with her almost two-year-old son, Silas, to learn about organic gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. Before coming to Moonshadow she graduated from the University of the South with a degree in Natural Resources and lived in Berea, Kentucky. After leaving Moonshadow she hopes to continue her education in botany and natural medicine. She also hopes to build her own gardens and orchard.   JIM BRANTLEY came to Moonshadow after graduating from the University of the South with a Natural Resources degree. Here his focus is sustainable building and the educational and communal aspects of life here. He hopes to find conservation/restoration work in the future. PAULA GROSS is a botany instructor in Charlotte, NC. While interning at Moonshadow, she worked on a variety of projects including chicken pen maintenance, peeling logs, renovating the hog shed, cleaning bee-keeping equipment, scything in the orchard and around ponds and gardening. During her time here, she got a better idea of small community living. It’s been inspirational to her to see how one family is able to build and sustain such a beautiful life for themselves and share it with others. She hopes to live more sustainably and hopes to be in contact with Moonshadow folks for a long time! ALAN PEOPLES is a migrant farm worker during most of the year, harvesting wild blueberries, tree planting, corn de-tasseling, etc. He came to Moonshadow to observe sustainable living practices and to learn all he could. He aspires to one day own land - performing useful work while living within his means. MARCELO PRECOPPE studied Forestry Engineering in Brazil. Last fall and spring semesters he attended Michigan State University as a sponsored student. At Moonshadow he has been involved with various sorts of jobs: working in the gardens, helping to create the SVI home page, construction of a cold frame and cooking. The next construction job he has planned is to build a chicken tractor.

Summer Interns 2001 Season

ALLISON CERULLI just graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in plant ecology. She enjoys traveling and spent a substantial part of college partcipating in study abroad trips to New Zealand and Costa Rica where she focused on ecological field work, conservation issues and sustainable harvesting. She is also extremely interested in environmental education for people of all ages. She hopes to learn more about these issues while here. BRADLEY JONES came, was confused, hauled many logs, and then fought fires. much fun was had by all.