Mar
20
Written by:
Chester Anderson
3/20/2008 3:09 PM
Bevan’s family moved to Seattle after the 2nd World War. His interest in gardening came early, primarily from parents and grandparents that gardened extensively. By age 12 he had his own garden, experimenting with a number of ideas that only a 12 year old could imagine. His experimenting continues to this day as he tries a myriad number of crops, most often with success.
The only time Bevan did not grow was while in college studying architecture. He married at 24, had 10 children and now has 37 grandchildren. He worked for 30 years in the construction field as a general contractor, construction manager and construction administrator. Bevan is proud of the number of agricultural based communities that he helped begin along with farming several acres by hand and at the same time teaching his kids and the neighbor’s kids about farming and gardening. He retired from the construction field in 1996, relinquished his possessions and has since worked pursuing the creation of agricultural based communities for little or essentially no money, relying on his faith to provide him with what he needs.
Bevan now resides at Heartwood Cohousing where he is utilizing a greenhouse for his starts and teaching and enlightening those that will listen. He believes that La Boca has an enormous potential to assist with the revival of a regional food system. He is politically motivated by his concerns for peoples’ political autonomy and thus the need for everyone to have access to food without anyone else standing between a person and his food source.
Bevan’s favorite author – Rumi
Bevan’s suggested reading – Bonds That Make Us Free by C. Terry Warner
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