Henry Stanley
Henry grew up on a small farm in a small town on the amazing Oregon Coast. His parents taught him how to fish, garden, take care of animals, kayak, gather mussels clams and oysters and what berries and plants in the coastal rainforest are edible.
He went to college in Bend and then Western Oregon University to pursue Art and Painting. During the his college years Henry read his first Tom Brown Jr. book which was a great inspiration and led him to pursue a lifestyle and set of skills that would be more akin to a core purpose of being caretakers of this amazing planet.
After college, Henry started gardening again on the Oregon Coast and was introduced to community building as a key community member of City Repair. He then Moved to Portland to pursue a new passion, Urban Permaculture, with the hope to remediate and make the city yards and open spaces more productive in terms of growing food.
There he found his community with TrackersNW and rekindled past skills and passions to become a Boat Builder and Permaculture Instructor. He has traveled to Australia and studied under Geoff Lawton at the Permaculture Institute of Australia to learn how to teach Permaculture Courses. He also splits his time at the farm that he grew up on on the coast where he is getting the land and infrastructure back in shape for a sustainable model of a productive permaculture farm and running TrackersNW programs out there.
Gabe’s love for the wilderness and the outdoors was born through the hiking, camping, fishing, kayaking and snowboarding he did growing up in Alaska. After high school he headed South for school, first for a stint in Idaho and then further South to Ecuador for a year where he studied Spanish and Environmental Studies. It was there while working on a coastal organic farm that he started studying and practicing permaculture.
Since living in Portland Gabe has worked as an organizer for various environmental organizations and as a volunteer for City Repair and Tryon Life Community Farm. He graduated from the TrackersTeams Wilderness Immersion Program and now works as an instructor for both youth and adult programs with the organization teaching various skills from tracking to permaculture to collaborative team skills. He spends his free time tanning hides, tending the gardens and milking goats at his home at TLC Farm in SW Portland.
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