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Stacy is the President of Maine Farmland Trust. A farmer, policymaker, and community advocate, she is the cofounder of Broadturn Farm in Scarborough with her husband, John Bliss, where they raise vegetables and flowers and host weddings on conserved land the business rents from a community land trust. She also serves as a Maine State Senator.

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Will is the co-owner of Longer Table Farm and first generation farmer with over a decade of experience growing organic produce in Sonoma County, California. On the farm, Will prioritizes the environment and local community via living wages, sustainable farming and accessible organic produce.

Faculty Lead & Curriculum Director

Elaine is an operations leader with experience ranging from early stage startups to large corporations in food, apparel, and technology. Most recently, at Planet FWD, she worked with food & beverage companies to understand and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Prior to that, she launched Moonshot Climate-Friendly Crackers. She has served FARMpreneurs since 2018.

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Emma is a first-generation farmer who founded Moon Valley Farm in 2012. It is now a 70-acre organic farm and food hub serving the Chesapeake Bay region. Jagoz is the Organic Chair for the Maryland Agricultural Commission and is passionate about strengthening the health of the Chesapeake Bay area through localizing the food system.

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Nikiko Masumoto is an organic farmer and artist. She is Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American, and stewards the same soil her great-grandparents worked in California where Masumoto Family Farm grows organic peaches, nectarines, apricots and grapes for raisins. She’s co-written a new children’s book, Every Peach is a Story, with her father David Mas Masumoto.

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Eric has been working with plants since 2004, first as a landscaper transitioning to sustainable farming in 2011. Along the way he has also worked in livestock production, habitat repair, forestry, and on farm events. This journey landed him at Carnation Farms in 2023 as the Crops Manager, and then the Director of Regenerative Agriculture in 2024. His ethos on farming is not to dictate what the land should produce but to observe and enhance what an environment already does well.

Founder, Ideagarden Institute & FARMpreneurs

Will is an internationally recognized entrepreneur and educator and the founder of FARMpreneurs. He is also co-founder and Chairperson of Ideagarden Institute, as well as founder and faculty steward of the Sustainable Food Initiative at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and former founding Dean of the Food Business School at The Culinary Institute of America. Will is the co-author of The Republic Tea, How an Idea Becomes a Business, which was named one of the 100 best business books of all time. In 2010, Will received the Oslo Business for Peace Award.

Core Faculty & Alumni

Jesse Smith is the Director of Land Stewardship at White Buffalo Land Trust, a non-profit dedicated to advancing regenerative agriculture. In his role, Jesse manages the Center of Regenerative Agriculture at Jalama Canyon Ranch, a 1,000-acre site that integrates farming, ranching, and conservation. He oversees vineyard operations, livestock care, and restoration.

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John and his wife Halee own Meadowlark Organics Farm & Meadowlark Community Mill in Ridgeway, WI. Their team manages 1,000 acres of diversified field crops and cattle, and operates a stone mill which sources grain from fellow organic farmers to be processed and distributed regionally. They work to create direct grain markets, helping farmers maximize profitability and keep their grains within the foodshed.

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Asher is the Farm Director at Caney Fork Farms, and he has been working in regenerative agriculture since 2005 with a heavy focus on diversified crop and livestock systems. He loves all things related to agriculture and food systems. His career experience began at the agriculture program at Warren Wilson College, which led him to work on farms around the US and Central and South America. After his travels, he received an M.S. in Animal Science from Clemson University. While at Clemson, he researched forage-finished beef, studying both animal performance and the interface between meat quality and human health.