Tim Blakley:  

Hi Everyone, It's been quite awhile since I have interacted with anyone from Antioch High School. The only person in the Class of 75 I am in contact with is Terri Cooper and I would like to be in contact with some of my 'old' friends. I left High School and got into lots of alternative stuff, health, nutrition the back to the land movement, etc. From the late 70's to the early 90's I grew medicinal and culinary herbs, and organic produce for high end restaurants and stores in the Bay Area as well as growing and selling cut flowers. I was a teacher, manager and co-owner of an alternative school called the California School of Herbal Studies. I was part of the medicinal herb movement which in the 70's was just a bunch of hippies hoping to change the world and now is a multi billion dollar industry. In the early 90's I met my present wife Heather and moved to a small town in NE Iowa, yes Iowa. I worked for an heirlook seed preservation group called Seed Savers Exchange before taking the job of land manager for Frontier Herb Co-operative. From 1993-97 I was the land manager for an Herb Company called Herb Pharm in S. Oregon. Besides farming herbs I also continued to teach people about medicinal herbs. I put on a few conferences and traveled around as the herbalist for the company. In 1998 my wife and I moved to SE Ohio and helped found the National Center for the Preservation of Medicinal Herbs, a non profit research farm focusing on native medicina...Expand for more