Through innovative practices, farmers can improve the quality of our land, our waterways, our lives, and our planet.
As CEO of Harborview Farms, my 13,000-acre, fourth generation family farm in Rock Hall, Maryland, I’ve worked to balance my roots in traditional agriculture and my personal interest in finding a more environmentally sustainable way to farm. I call it “climate resilience.”
It’s an approach that takes its cues from Mother Nature and provides solutions for problems we’ve never attempted to address through farming—reducing carbon emissions, boosting pollinator species and biodiversity, and improving water quality.
Through creative innovation in cover crops, combined with no-till methods, I’ve designed my farm responsively for the environmental factors—or the world—we’re experiencing now.
PHILOSOPHY
As farming gets tougher and more complex, the industry is in need of something more.
By approaching farming as a creative endeavor, exploring new techniques, and connecting dots in new ways that others aren’t willing to try, farming can be a canvas on which to create something transformative.
explore my approach to innovative farming
“More than ever, we’re experiencing hotter, drier summers and cooler, wetter winters, and a rigid approach to farming can’t adapt accordingly. We’re spending more time and money to do things the way we always have, but this is not the environment or climate past generations would have recognized. The world has changed. More than ever, it’s time to innovate.
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Learn more about farming philosophy through my writing and public speaking.
WRITING & OPINION PIECES
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No-till agriculture promotes soil health and sequesters carbon, so why isn't everybody doing it? The practical reality is that farmers are limited by their i...
"Having everything in one place saves me time. My crew knows the order of events for the day without needing to call me or ask questions." www.granular.ag
It takes overcoming a lot of uncomfortableness to cover crop and plant green. This session will discuss planting green and the trials and tribulations over t...
Farmer Trey Hill shares sustainable agriculture techniques used at Harborview Farms in Maryland: http://forwardfarming.com Harborview Farms is a fourth-gener...