Not to be confused with Benjamin our oyster mushroom expert, Ben is a WWOOFer who arrived in November. Most of our volunteers come by car or plane, but Ben rolled up on this sweet ride, a customized motorcycle with parts from several models including a Honda Shadow Spirit and a 1984 Harley. Describing the project as an artistic collage, he wrapped the gas tank with turkey wing feathers and attached a boar’s skull under the headlight. A bona fide biker, Ben even rode through Hurricane Ida, holding on so tightly that his handlebars came off!
A native of northern Wisconsin who grew up on a dairy farm, he hunts professionally and responsibly to protect farms and to control wildlife overpopulation. After teaching high school and working in an art gallery, Ben began a cross-country adventure that’s taken him from a winery in California, where he studied under Standing Bear, a Hupa storyteller, an apple orchard in North Carolina, and a farm in Georgia, where he milked cows and goats, and learned sacred food blessings from nearby Cherokees.
Ben is also a published poet whose work can be read at Theconcertjournal.com.
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