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La Montañita Co-op AuthorPhilA former Student Ambassador to Australia and New Zealand, Phil Kearney loves to travel. He has worked on an archeological site in Israel while living on a kibbutz, and studied theatre in London and art in Paris and Florence. The son of schoolteachers, he grew up surrounded by cornfields just outside Rockford, Illinois, but left as soon as he could to study art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While in Milwaukee, he learned how to cook at an all-natural eatery called Beans and Barley. This is where he got hooked on organic produce. After earning a degree in fine art from UW Milwaukee in 2000, Phil rambled around for the next five years, living out of a van and selling his paintings wherever he could. After stints in Alaska and Eugene, Oregon, he bought a mobile home and was en route to Belize when motor trouble outside Grants forced him to settle here. That was five years ago and he has not yet left for Belize. He lives with his environmental scientist girlfriend, her cat and his dog. He gardens now quite a bit but still manages to paint here and there. He recently finished a mural for the Annapurna Chai House on the corner of Yale and Silver. Phil sells some of his homegrown produce to the Co-op under the name Happy Javelina Farms. This summer he hopes to bring in a crop of jicama. |
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