Greg

I grew up in Illinois, farm country, northern Illinois.

Rode my bike every day to work with a farmer and actually ended up loving it and wanted to be a farmer all my life.

Out of college, though, I ended up heading towards landscape maintenance, construction, and snow removal.

So that was kind of my forte into business.

Where was college?

College was Winona State University in Minnesota.

Okay.

But I think, for me, always wanted to be a farmer.

I kind of had to feel all my life that I was an urban farmer since I was making landscapes beautiful.

But I ended up doing a couple exits, started a couple companies and exited and was able to afford to start farming.

And ended up in Fort Collins, Colorado, there was a organic farm for sale around 1100 acres.

And not knowing what I didn't know, I was always with conventional farmers.

and started seeing some of the pricing that we could get for organic farming and that it was already organic.

So I think it was just an amazing opportunity that I look back on that I fell into and glad that I had the money to purchase those farms.

And then we grew from there.

So I feel like I'm very blessed life and things have gone well.

I've got four great kids and they're all doing well, so.

It was a great, great, great start to become a farmer, and then we can talk more about that.

Yeah, so there's 74 certifying bodies in the organic world.

74.