The North Star of my career is perennial and continuous living cover agriculture – the idea that everything we know about the world tells us that for real long-term sustainability, we need to keep most of the ground covered with vegetation most of the time, and most of that needs to actually be in perennials.

Farmers wanted to share their harvests, months of labor, and years of good stewardship; New Americans wanted to share their traditions, recipes, ingredients; Chefs wanted to share their creativity, Educators wanted to share their passions, Neighbors wanted to share their green space...the list could go on. This generosity of spirit was easily recognized by me – it was the same one that I had witnessed in my farm family and rural community.

With that in mind, he began offering his own testimony at the capitol as a means to hold his elected officials accountable. They needed to see and hear from who they were hurting