ABOUT ADAM
Adam grew up a New England farm kid on a historic family homestead, Gateways Farm, connecting with the land, always curious about living with nature. As an only child he spent hours and days wandering and exploring the farm. In his early years Adam studied primitive skills and spirituality, running a small CSA on his family’s land. It is that same feeling of belonging to a place that guided him and Kaye to find and create Broadfork Farm.
Adam is tending Broadfork toward a perennial style of agriculture, focusing on perennial field crops, woody plants and soil microbiome health. His approach is influenced strongly by his academic background in agroecology, and graduate study in systems theory, complexity science, and Goethean phenomenology. Though, perhaps, his greatest teachers are his three children. And of course learning from mistakes made. Farming is nothing, if not learning from one’s mistakes.
The soil microbiome is Adam's business interest and the focus of Broadfork Farm's humus compost and liquid bioamendments brand Compost Earth! Following the Lubke method of humusmanagement, Compost Earth! creates a microbially rich and diverse compost that serves as the base material for a range of microbial soil supplements sold commercially in the Columbia River Gorge.
Adam's professional background includes working as an organic farmer, conservation land planner and steward, and as a project manager in corporate sustainability strategy consulting for a handful of Fortune 500 companies. Adam has accumulated 20+ years practicing organic agriculture, and developing food and farm enterprises on both US coasts. Adam is available for consultation and teaching and is open to collaborations of many forms.
““The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ”