Employee Profiles—mIEKAL aND

Formal Title:

webmaster

Informal Title:

Deputy Digitman

Job Duties:

Web design & maintaining Organic Valley website.

Describe your Job in 5 words or less:

Working intimately with a computer

Education:

Quit college 8 times, self-taught, life long learner

When did you start working for CROPP?

Dec 2000

Why did you decide to work for CROPP?

Social ly responsible, friends working here, to support the organic movement

Describe CROPP in 5 words or less:

Relaxed multi-tasking mutating organism

Describe a typical day at CROPP from you job perspective?

Reading mail, checking the website for problems, producing the design for the various journals (such as James Journal & Down Nature's Trail). Fixing & upgrading the macs in the graphics department. Heighten the consciousness about the impact web media can play in the social & economic spheres.

Describe your favorite CROPP story or work related story:

Words to live by:

The problem is the solution

Personal or favorite quote:

Everything gardens

How do you get to work? (what do you drive to work, etc):

91 Toyota Camry

Favorites:

Music:

Experimental music of all kinds, world music such as turkish, japanese, the music of malagasy republic, electronic music, progressive rock

Food:

Anything that grows at Dreamtime: Cherries, gooseberries, asparagus, elderberries, buartnuts, russian kale, grapes, heirloom garlic, potatoes, morels, maple syrup

Hobbies:

Don’t believe in hobbies but in my non-work life I play saxophone & other reed instruments, write & publish poetry & experimental hypermedia, grow about 300 kinds of plants in containers including a d

Books:

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Ficciones by Jorge Borges Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce Forest Gardening by Robert Hart Permaculture by Bill Mollison

If you could trade places with anyone who would it be?

My son.

Name two things you are good at:

Massage & cooking.

What two words describe you?

Visionary Articulate

Family information:

Co-founder / director of Dreamtime Village, a hypermedia / permaculture eco-village project in West Lima. http://www.dreamtimevillage.org

Editor / publisher of Xexoxial Editions, a publisher of handmade artistbook & experimental literature. http://www.xexoxial.org

& slowly beginning a new project, The Driftless Area Sacred Grove. Creating a non- profit organization that will seek to purchase or be donated a 40 acre tract of worn out farm land in order to plant a system of groves, & establish wild grown medicinal herbs that would be open to the public for harvesting for their own needs. Also a space for rituals, for spreading the ashes of loved ones & for contemplation of our effects on the ecosystem.