Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to Travel-Based Service Work Projects
Our service work projects began when we worked in different countries and regions with students through Woodstock Union High School. The places we worked in include: Puerto Rico, Senegal, the Amazon Region of Peru, Yosemite National Park, and the Kuna Islands in Panama. Now that we are a non-profit organization, we are traveling to various places in the world to continue service work projects.
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I was a language educator at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School in Woodstock, VT, licensed to teach both French and Spanish. I have recently retired from the Ottauquechee Elementary school and look forward to planning more adventures. My passion is bringing culture to life by traveling with students, especially in the developing world, establishing humanitarian, cultural and service exchanges. Along with my co-collaborator, John Hiers, we have traveled with students to Latin America, Europe and Senegal, honing our skills as both trip leaders and seeking out meaningful experiences for young people as well as those who are young at heart to see the world with newly opened eyes.
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I began working at age fourteen at a local greenhouse grower in Bargaintown, NJ. My life’s work has centered in the field of agriculture. In 1987 at age thirty, my wife and I moved to Bridgewater Corners, Vermont. It is here where my past experiences has lead to an amazing career at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School, teaching forestry and horticulture.
Over the past twenty-eight years, I have been organizing and collaborating on high school service trips to locations in the United States and around the world. With an abundance of experience and teaching skills, I look forward to sharing my vision with Trees and Seeds for peace through the cultivation of new friendships and improved agricultural practices.
Food security improves learning, elevates lives and creates a pathway to equality
