About
Iron Mountain Ranch
Sunset over the Tunk Valley, Riverside WA
I'm on 40 acres at 3,600 feet in Washington's upper Tunk Valley — off-grid, by choice. I paint, grow food, breed plants for this elevation, pull rocks out of the hills, and run a small e-commerce operation that ties all of it together. I built the site myself. I ship the orders myself. I answer to the land before I answer to a screen.
I founded Eisenetics LLC in February 2026 to put a name on what was already happening — art, agriculture, land stewardship, and technology, all from the same 40 acres. The long-term vision is simple: the business funds the land, and the land feeds the business.
Brian Eisenberg
Currently
Painting in the Tunk Valley.
Managing 40 acres of forest.
Consulting on technology, AI, and operations.
Selling things I find interesting.
Spring projects.
Garden prep.
Listening To
Follow
The Origin
How I ended up on 40 acres in the middle of nowhere
In 2015, I was still in Seattle when the Tunk Block Fire broke out in Okanogan County — one of the largest wildfires in Washington state history. I signed up as a volunteer, drove five hours east, and spent weeks helping communities that had lost everything.
I'd never seen the Tunk Valley before that fire. But something about the land — the open ridges, the pine, fir, and tamarack forests, the silence — got into me. Within a year I'd found 40 acres on Iron Mountain and started building. Two parcels, upper and lower, connected by a dirt road that becomes impassable in winter. No grid power. No city water. Just land.
The property sits at 3,600 feet in the Okanogan Highlands — a landscape shaped by ice age floods, glacial erratics, and gold-bearing quartz veins running through granite. I've found rocks on this land that tell a story millions of years old. The geology here is part of why I started collecting and selling minerals.
Everything I sell through Eisenetics connects back to this place. The paintings are made in my studio here. The plants are grown in my garden. The rocks come from the land. Even the collectibles and storage-unit finds reflect the kind of treasure-hunting instinct that brought me to the Tunk Valley in the first place. It all starts at Iron Mountain Ranch.
The Work
Painting
I work primarily in acrylics — Golden Series Interference paints specifically — on stretched canvas. Interference paints are unusual: they shift color depending on the viewing angle and lighting condition, so the same painting looks completely different in morning light versus afternoon, or when you move around it.
My work is rapid-form abstract — fast, physical, and layered. I'm interested in what happens when you stop controlling a painting and start responding to it. The interference paints make that conversation more complex, because what you laid down an hour ago isn't what it appears to be now.
The Path
A non-linear route
Education
Consulting
Work with me
25+ years across technology, product management, operations, land stewardship, and off-grid living. I consult across five areas: Technology & AI, Business Operations, Off-Grid & Solar, Land & Forest Management, and Career Strategy. Discovery calls are always free.
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