[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member_2 name=”Robbie Anderman” image_url=”https:\/\/burnstownpublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/robbie-anderman.jpg” animation=”fade_in” admin_label=”Author Profile” _builder_version=”3.12.2″ header_font_size_tablet=”51″ header_line_height_tablet=”2″ body_font_size_tablet=”51″ body_line_height_tablet=”2″]Robbie Anderman has had an intimate working relationship with Trees for several decades, as orchardist, nurseryperson, Tree pruner, luthier, woodwind musician, off-grid forest homesteader, sustainable Tree harvester, and Tree herbalist using Tree medicine for himself and friends and family.<\/p>\n
He has planted and tended pear, apple, plum, and nut orchards organically in his farm community and for others; worked for years at a small Tree nursery; handcrafted local woods into hundreds of musical instruments: mountain dulcimers, kantele harps, Celtic harps, and Native American flutes; as a musician produced three music CDs (robbiehanna.com) of him playing wooden and bamboo instruments; and he has been a frequent carpenter and furniture maker.<\/p>\n
Robbie\u2019s life skills and achievements have also included cofounding in 1969 the 100-acre intentional land-based off-grid community that is still his home, an ongoing learning\/teaching\/pioneering experiment in co-operative, Earth-friendly living, consensus decision-making, natural building, organic gardening and farming, and home schooling for many of the children, including his own children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Robbie honed his researching skills at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, and his respect for, and love of, self-directed learning at Rochdale College, Toronto. Natural food cooking skills were picked up at a macrobiotic restaurant in Woodstock, New York, and practised as a \u201cnatural food chef\u201d in the cafeteria of Windham College.<\/p>\n
For six weeks in 1969, Robbie helped set up campsites and the free kitchen; was on the \u201cSecurity Please Force\u201d; and helped clean up at the big \u201cDemonstration of Peace,\u201d The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. Co-operation, sharing, and feeding each other while mutually enduring challenging weather and enjoying great music and people wer e simple basic lessons he learned and demonstrated there.<\/p>\n
Living lightly on, and close to, the land came by osmosis while living in a tipi in eleven various widespread locations in North America for over fi fteen months. With winter coming on in 1978, he built a ten-by-ten-foot log and Birchbark cabin, half in the ground, with a sod roof, and lived in there for three winters.<\/p>\n
With his life partner, Christina, taking the lead, in 1998 Robbie helped develop, make, market, and distribute Cool Hemp Organic, Fair Trade, non-dairy frozen dessert, which was available in over 200 supermarkets and natural food retail stores in Canada for over ten years.<\/p>\n
Today, Robbie works with his adult son Ethan and his wife, Christina, in their pear and apple juice, cider and vinegar business; shares his organic orcharding and gardening knowledge and experience with visitors and WWOOFers; and offers Tree medicine workshops.
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