Jorian is a writer, artist, publisher, curator, educator, land-steward, community builder, culture instigator, entrepreneur, yogi, and gentleman ecologist based in Central Virginia, with feet also in Brooklyn NY and Teaneck NJ. Jorian was raised in Boulder, Colorado and La Jolla, California, graduated from Harvard in 2006, and has lived for stints in Argentina, the Netherlands, France, and Israel. In 2013 he bought Farfields Farm in Afton, Virginia; in 2015 he founded the Iyyun Kollel in Brooklyn; in 2020 he took root in Covesville, Virginia; in 2021 he founded the Mahaz homestead program, and this year he will be publishing his first volumes under Deuteronomy Press: An Introduction to Sabbath Agriculture (co-written with Yigal Deutscher) and Eit Yosef.