The Story
Growing things is the family trade. It just took me a while to come back to it.
Both of my parents were trained in tropical botany — in the 1970s they travelled through Southeast Asia collecting novel species of pitcher plants. My mother went on to run the variety verification lab at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. She later purchased a farm in rural Ontario, not to farm it, but to protect sixty acres of forest from subdivision.
I took a different path. Self-taught programmer from childhood — screensavers, MIDI sequencers, 3D rendering engines before I finished high school. My career wound through audio engineering, a marine aquaculture startup, project management, and delivery leadership, earning a PMP along the way.
When life brought me back to the farm, I started building software to manage it — and never stopped. The software is ten years old. The farming is brand new. 2026 is Year One.
