Dan Bensonoff has spent most of his adult life studying and practicing land-based resiliency skills. He is an educator with a focus on sustainable food production, permaculture, food preservation, foraging, and other crafts that are rooted in “the old ways”. His life revolves around his collective homestead which he shares with a motley crew of kids, adults, chickens, and plants. He currently works as coordinator of the UMass Permaculture Initiative at UMass Amherst.