Andrew graduated with a Permaculture design certificate through the Blue Raven Farm on Salt Spring Island where Doug Bullock, Sam Bullock, Brandon Bauer and Michael Ableman taught the diverse disciplines of ecological design. He then went through the Sustainable Agriculture Education Program (SAgE) at Seattle Central Community College with emphasis in Agroforestry. Andrew has spent the last 12 years building large scale gardens, rain gardens, and water catchment systems in the Puget Sound area. He spends his spare time developing his homestead property in Port Townsend.