Kevin found his love of nature as a teenager whilst trout fishing the small streams of the Driftless region of southeastern Minnesota with his father. Following that thread, he soon found himself enchanted by the writings of wilderness survivalist Tom Brown — especially his stories of how, as a child, Tom's best friend's grandfather taught him to survive, thrive, and flow within the rhythms of nature. After an early adulthood of extensive travel near and far, gardening and homesteading, learning and training, Kevin eventually found his vocational calling as a mentor, educator, and rites of passage guide for teens and young adults. Recently, Kevin has taught ancestral skills and nature connection at various nature-based youth programs, guided teen sharing circles in Asheville middle schools, and guided wilderness rites of passage immersions for men in recovery from addiction in the mountains of North Carolina. He now finds himself joyfully immersed in academia, studying rites of passage through the disciplines of depth psychology, anthropology, and religious studies at ETSU, and on a track to become a licensed therapist. Perhaps most excitingly, he is helping to develop teen rites of passage programming right here at Fauna Forest Farm.

As a nature connection mentor and youth educator, Kevin brings a calm and regulating energy, playfulness, deep listening and attunement, and a steady, present patience that supports the thriving of each child's natural curiosity, intelligence, and — dare he say — genius.