Gather close, make something good, take a skill home. Jaype comes to your kitchen, garden or porch with the tools and the know-how. In about three hours you will make memories, share a table, and everyone leaves with something they made.
From $300 | Based in Hilo, Hawai'i | Coming to California in February 2027
Picture this...
Hands in the jars, laughter in the air, and the sweet smell of jamming berries filling the room. No classroom, no travel. A facilitator brings the tools and the know-how to your kitchen, garden or porch. Everyone leaves with something to take home and a skill they can repeat.
...to memorialize a day.
Focus Forward to Foster Fellowship with Food and Faith.
A Homestead Hangout is a safe place to gather in community, share your wares, wisdom, encouragement, and feel familiar in a world of strangers. A single stick is easily broken; a bundle is much harder to break.
Plan. A short call about your group, your space and what you'd like to make. Prefer text or email? That works too.
Welcome Ronda. Every Hangout opens with a Yerba Mate Ronda. Each guest gets their own cup and bombilla, and Jaype pours for each person in turn. We settle in and arrive together. Joining is always optional, and a caffeine-free cup is there for anyone who wants one.
Make it together. Hands-on and at your own pace: ferments, jars, kombucha, juicing or the garden.
Share the table, take it home. We eat together, close in a circle (where did time disappear for you today?), and everyone leaves with jars and a skill they can repeat.
Learn (jaypesanz.com) → Gather (a Hangout) → Find your place (jaypesanz.com) → Grow together (Farm.ily, Seasons of the Soul, Mission Ferments)
Regenerative Natural Farmer | Cebador | Founder of The Homestead Hangouts
Aloha, I'm Jaype. I grow food forests on in Hilo, Hawai'i, practicing Korean Natural Farming and permaculture design. I ferment the harvest with, A.I. Ancestral Intelligence, using saltwater brine.
My path in four words: farmed, fermented, fell, found myself. I learned I couldn't do it all alone, and I didn't want to anymore. So I started bringing the work to people's tables.
I'm a cebador, a steward of the Yerba Mate Ronda, and I have worked with the Guarani community, whose plant of peace and hospitality opens every Hangout. As a neurodivergent host, I design each Hangout for small groups, hands-on tasks and learning at your own pace.
I build bridges between old-world wisdom and the modern homestead, from city to country, so we can all stand on common ground.
Every Hangout is designed to welcome neurodivergent and neurotypical guests together.
The Homestead Hangouts is the skin and bones of a bigger body: it holds all the members together. To meet the person behind it and see the whole body, visit jaypesanz.com →
Shared common ground has room for every kind of mind.
Homestead Hangouts are designed for neurodivergent and neurotypical guests together. Sensory-friendly Hangouts, up to 6 guests, are thoughtfully planned for teens, adults and families.