Growing up on a Midwest farm definitely influenced my life's work, although in my early 20's farming was the furthest from my mind.  After a year of college, right out of high school, I travel to where there were jobs and sunshine.  I ended up with a business degree from the school of hard knocks.  It is a degree I rely on often.  But I knew I had to do more, so I returned to college to my original major: biology.  After learning biology and completed my work for a MS in Environmental Sciences.  That is when I returned to farming and began to evaluate it from many perspectives.  After 15 years of farming, a fairly lengthy stint in local government and conservation and then federal farm policy, I started my own business and began wrapping my entire life experiences into my daily work.  But this was not enough, so I began writing what I knew and stumbled across Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.  It was his work and my life experience that allowed me to construct EcoCommerce 101: Adding an ecological dimension to the economy.  It creates an environmental market signal upon the platform that Adam Smith so elequaintly explained.

Minnesota Assocation of Conservation District Employees President. Carver, MN City Council member. North Central Association of Conservation District Employees Professional Award.