Peter Healy
Director, Lands at Mad Agriculture
Farming Futures: Breaking Barriers for Urban Agriculture , Friday, December 6th, 10:15 AM, Classroom 305
Peter is the Director of Lands at Mad Agriculture, a Boulder Colorado-based nonprofit seeking to catalyze a regenerative revolution by empowering land stewards with technical and financial assistance.
With a background in environmental science, Peter has spent years of professional and personal time in service to the land. He worked as farm labor on a small-scale organic operation in CO and managed farmers markets and addressed food insecurity head on in CA. He’s worked with tobacco, corn, and soy farmers in TN and KY to incorporate indigo into their crop rotation to support the production of plant-based denim dye.
Now for the personal stuff.
He’s lived on three different continents and aspires to never run a marathon. He’s slept in homeless shelters, abandoned buildings, and on the ground next to a glacier. He’s taught yoga to inmates and highschoolers, and turned human waste into nutrient dense compost.