Past Projects:
Regenerative Agriculture & Sourcing
Materra Regen Guide
Lead author for a primer on regenerative agriculture, practices, and farmer well-being primarily for brand clients and consumers.
Materra Regenerative Strategy & Theory of Change
Developed through a thoughtful consultative process with staff, farmers, and experts in 2024.
Scaling Strategy for Smallholder Regenerative Agriculture
Senior Editor (at Terra Genesis International) for an 8-part report series funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, focused on pathways to scaling regenerative agriculture among smallholder farmers and introducing innovative or diversified crops into regenerative markets.
Carbon Harvest White Paper
Drawing on research, expert interviews, a regional landscape analysis, and a survey of voluntary and regenerative carbon credit programs from around the world, the white paper laid the foundation for Carbon Harvest, an innovative community-based agroforestry carbon initiative in Southern Appalachia that went on to win USDA Climate-Smart funding.
Nicaragua Regenerative Coffee
Project manager and client lead for a major multinational coffee supplier to support smallholder coffee farmers in Nicaragua to transition to diversified, shaded polyculture coffee systems.
The task was to develop diversified, climate-resilient, low-carbon cropping concepts for smallholder coffee systems in Nicaragua. The team developed different cropping concept variations — from simpler, commercially oriented diversification to more highly diversified, food-sovereignty-oriented systems. The designs were accompanied by carbon and financial modeling to make the business case for the investment — for both the farmers and the company.
Landscape & Farm Design
Crow Fly Farm Carbon Farm Plan
Carbon Farm Plan for a Fiber Farm (Santa Rosa, CA)
Terraced Food Forest Design (Barnardsville, NC)
Meditation Center Landscape Design (Petaluma, CA)
Egypti Farm Design (Virrat, Finland)
Revere Homestead Design
Kittelstrom Residential design (Santa Rosa, CA)
Calder Creek Restoration (Sebastopol, CA)
Urban Homestead Design (Asheville, NC)
Writing & Media
Freelance Writing
“Squirrel Away: Lessons on Preserving Food for the Winter,” Taproot Magazine Issue 54 (December 2022)
“Homespun Nettle Fiber,” Mother Earth News Magazine Oct/Nov 2021
Grow Your Own Color: Planting a Natural Dye Garden, Mother Earth News Blog (February 2021)
Flavors of 50 Miles: Winter, Edible Asheville Magazine (Winter 2021)
Face to Face with Your Farmer, Edible Asheville Magazine (Fall 2020)
Flavors of 50 Miles: Summer, Edible Asheville Magazine (Summer 2020)
Flavors of 50 Miles, Edible Asheville Magazine (Winter 2020)
Media
Can Agroforestry Breathe Fresh Life into Carbon Markets? — Interview in Civil Eats (August 2023)
Everybody’s Foodshed — Interview in Bold Life Magazine (March 2021)
Asheville FM 103.3 Radio Interview (February 2021)
Why it’s time to go beyond ‘organic’ to regenerative agriculture, Green Dreamer Podcast Ep. 52 (Spring 2018)
