I'm an agroecologist, certified permaculture designer, farmer, and rancher based in central Ohio. I founded Regenerative Ag Design to help landowners do something meaningful with their land, and make it financially sustainable while they're at it.  
 
The path here wasn't linear.  
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I spent 25 years in the corporate world, including investment banking, healthcare, scientific publishing. I led complex operations and built customer experience programs for some of the most demanding organizations in the country. I'm an MBA, and I think like one. That background shows up in every project I take on: rigorous financial modeling, clear scope definition, structured timelines, and the expectation that a plan should actually work when it meets reality. 
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But the whole time, I was also a gardener, then a homesteader, and eventually a farmer. In 2013 I founded Fair Hill Farm in central Ohio, where I raise pasture-raised meats, heritage livestock and poultry, and dairy products using beyond-organic methods. I earned my  Professional Permaculture Design Certificate studying under Andrew Millison at Oregon State University. I've been building soil, rotating livestock, and troubleshooting regenerative systems with my own hands for over a decade. 
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That combination - business rigor and farming reality - is what I bring to every client engagement. I design systems I've actually operated. I build financial models alongside site plans. And I stay involved through implementation because I know that the gap between the drawing and the dirt is where most projects fail. 
 
Right now I'm finishing a book on sheep husbandry and serving as a development partner on an agrivillage project in the Midwest. I work with landowners across the eastern US, from commodity cropland conversions to multigenerational homesteads to regenerative community developments. 
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If you're sitting on land and you know it could be more (more productive, more resilient, more valuable, more alive) I'd like to hear about it.  Schedule a conversation with me.  
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