We view farmland as a Canvas, not a commodity. 

Join Harborview Farms President Trey Hill in this new podcast, “The Tomorrow Farm,” as he shares his unconventional approach towards farming and how his innovative solutions can help other farmers fight climate change.

With climate resilient farming, my fields are better able to thrive in severe weather, my soils are richer and more productive, and I’m bettering the environment. But there are other, more personal benefits.  By being open to change and adaptation—observing and taking my cues from nature—I’m getting back to the roots of farming. Getting the shovel out and seeing the earthworms thrive in my living fields has reawakened a sense of not just how but why we farm.

Now, the idea of using agricultural land as a tool to sequester tons of atmospheric carbon is catching on. Several marketplaces are springing up to pay farmers for their carbon-storing efforts.

In fact, Maryland farmer Trey Hill is one of the early users of the carbon marketplace. In January, he received his first payoff — a check for about $120,000 for sequestering 8,000 tons of carbon over a three-year period on his 2,500-acre farm.

If becoming more environmentally responsible and climate-sensitive means more work, at the same pay, and requires a radical shift in thinking—how do we get farmers to do it?

Trey Hill led a small group of fellow farmers to a field outside his office in Rock Hall on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It was a cloudy February day, but the ground was alive with color — purple and red turnip tops mixing exuberantly with green rye, vetch and clover, and beneath it all, rich brown soil. Hill reached down, yanked a long, thick, white daikon radish from the earth and showed his visitors sumptuous coffee-colored clods clinging to hairy rootlets. Those clumps, he explained, hoard carbon — carbon that’s not heating the planet.

This is a great video done by The Nature Conservancy showing the conservation work that occurs between Harborview Farms and the folks that we work with.

https://youtu.be/M91PVZ14jpc

I am very excited that after 2 years of working with Nori, we have the first carbon credits for sale in a marketplace. All of the work we have been doing to build resiliency in our soils and sequester Carbon to help reverse climate change is paying off. Hopefully, this is the start of a huge change that will take place in agriculture .

Almost 90 miles east of Beltsville, Trey Hill squints against the afternoon sun as he looks out at the land his family has been farming for more than a century. Harborview Farms is headquartered in Rock Hall, Maryland, a charming seaside village on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, and encompasses 13,000 acres and more than 80 farms over three counties.

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Saving soil isn't the only reason Trey Hill practices no-till – it also saves money.

This is a great film for anyone wanting to learn about soil health. Harborview is one of the farmers that they featured.

Sustainable Agriculture Practices at Harborview Farms. Nice video Bayer did for Forward Farming.