Gene Gerue

Gene GeRue tractored in Wisconsin, soldiered in Japan, studied in California colleges, owned and operated a San Francisco East Bay real estate company, taught at a community college, sensed impending burnout, researched the U.S., found his ideal country home in 1976 and moved there in 1983. Since then he has been marketing director for a Trappist-monk-owned concrete products company, publications director for an energy-efficiency rating company and an editor and graphics designer. He now consults with rural home seekers and writes to encourage and show the city-impaired how to become successful ruralites. His articles have appeared in The Mother Earth News, Country Journal and Countryside. He writes a regular column, The Contrary Countryman, for Country Connections. Gene has been called "the man who would empty the cities." That's a stretch. Gene doesn't hate cities. He's been there, done that: Yokohama, Tokyo, Seattle, San Francisco, Little Rock, Los Angeles. He appreciates city advantages--storied libraries, vintage radio stations, restaurants with soul. He simply finds rural life superior. Gene's hobbies include designing, building, gardening, woodworking, hiking, and cooking. He is attempting to make the world's thickest perfect pizza. He finds writing about himself to be unusually unnerving so now he's going to take a walk along the stream and look for morel mushrooms--they make a sinfully salivous pizza topping.

Homestead.org Articles by Gene Gerue

The Ideal Country Home

Buy Rural Property as Soon as You Can

Gene's Website: http://www.ruralize.com

Gene's email: genegerue@ruralize.com