For the past five years, I have been working professionally as a carpenter, building additions, ADUs, and general home remodels for my community. Usually working alone or with one partner, I have been directly involved in every phase of a home build many times over. Since 2018, I have studied permaculture and explored how it applies in the real world. I even lived off-grid and started a tropical food forest in Okeechobee, Florida, in 2020. Then, after returning home, I founded Clover Systems in 2023 to offer solutions to our community by applying permaculture principles to local construction and urban agriculture.