Nursery
"Urban silvopasture" = meat rabbits + trees
Heritage tree-crop seedlings,
grown in West Philly.
A small, rotating selection of nut and fruit seedlings — pawpaw, honey locust, shellbark hickory, hican, persimmon, and black locust — grown in air-pruning beds along the side of the house, in fungal chip-built topsoil with rabbit-manure compost and homemade biochar. Most stock comes from the John W. Hershey Downingtown lineage J. Russell Smith wrote about in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
Projects
GradBot
AI-powered study assistant for graduate students. Turns course readings into interactive deep notes, quizzes, card sorts, and semester summaries — organized for your actual career path, not just the syllabus.
MASL — Math as a Second Language
Claude reads existing math curriculum (Illustrative Mathematics, etc.) and rewrites it with embedded language scaffolding for multilingual learners — TRY SAYING sentence frames, ACCESS/STANDARD/EXTENSION differentiation, and interactive card sorts. Hours of prep time reduced to minutes per lesson.
Radioactive Dating Lab
A custom interactive simulation built from scratch for an Algebra 2 unit on exponential decay — drag-and-drop carbon-14 and uranium-238 probes onto real artifact photos in a layered geological diorama, read the isotope percentage remaining, and estimate the age using a live decay-curve slider. Paired with a 3-page printable scaffold (paraphrased reading-comprehension fill-in, labeling activity, vocabulary reference) for paper-and-pencil work alongside the simulation. Inspired by the original PhET radiometric dating activity; the simulation code, scaffolded supports, narrative, and visual design are original.
TobyVision — Slope Map
An idea conceived in traffic, built the same day. Enter any address and see USGS live slope data overlaid on the map — color-coded for agroforestry suitability. 12–20% is the sweet spot for mechanized nut harvest; above 20% is hand-harvested terrain. No backend, no API key.
Philadelphia Events Calendar
A fully automated weekly pipeline that scrapes 20+ universities and cultural institutions in Philadelphia, scores events for speaker prominence, global relevance, and public access, then generates a formatted calendar — deployed with one command. Four hours of curation, ten minutes of compute.
Endless Jam
Jams mostly recorded in Ashland, NJ with a rotating cast of friends — spanning 2002 through the present, with over 900 sessions in the archive. Streams audio directly from Google Drive via a Flask proxy, with no file hosting costs. Built with a late-90s internet aesthetic: a composition notebook UI, per-track Song Feels, and a site-wide Guestbook backed by a persistent database. UI elements are pixel-positioned using a custom-built layout tool.
AI Powered Permaculture Talk
A 40-minute talk on when high-tech can be appropriate technology — covering lease analysis tools, multilingual math scaffolding, automated pipelines, and slope mapping. Includes a live demo and honest accounting of what Claude gets wrong about permaculture.
Get in Touch
I'm open to consulting, collaboration, and conversation — agroforestry leasing, AI tools for educators, permaculture design, or any of the above. Available by appointment year-round. Laptop in hand, will travel.