I do not have an extensive background in either forestry or farming but what brought me to both and to the connection between them was stewarding the land I purchased in Meigs county, Ohio. In the ten years that I have been here I have focused on various practices like windbreak and riparian plantings, invasive species removal, building wildlife habitat and cultivating medicinal forest plants. I initially approached doing this work with a conservation mindset. I was taking care of the forest, the fields and the stream. But as I watched what started to grow in the spaces that used to be only Autumn Olive and I watched how changing land use changed what would start to flourish there, I began to understand that this was actually a collaboration and that the farm doesn’t end where the forest begins. I know that perennial food crops can benefit the world in very powerful ways so I began to collect seed and planting stock from the rich source that is already right here. That was the beginning of my agroforestry oriented nursery, Future Days Farm.