ABOUT
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The mission of Be Agriculture is to help generate bioregional regenerative food, farming, and health systems. The vision is for all people take a seat at the table of agriculture, to spark reverence for life, and to leverage living systems thinking, or the idea that we grow the soil, not just plants...so the Earth may be healed.
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We are all agricultural beings. Agriculture is about more than growing crops. Eating is an agricultural act, and the impact that our farming and eating has on the world is profound. Agriculture = food, farming & health.
In many ways agriculture is the problem, and, at the same time, it serves as the most potent solution to the wicked problems we face in the world - hunger, climate, poverty, health care, etc.
We may have lost our way, but we can find it again through the living soil. The methods and technologies required to balance our presence on the Earth already exist, our challenge is to seek ways for it all to connect, and to find ourselves and our agency within the living whole.
We are being called to reconnect with ourselves, with one another, and with Mother Nature. The most potent way to do this is through agriculture - with our hands in the soil, breaking bread at the dinner table, or through the nourishment that can only be provided thrugh the living soil.
Be Agriculture exists to promote living methods, and help people come into awareness and experience with the natural world through agriculture.
The Living Land Program where we align methods understandings with living systems on the farm, or in your home ecosystems.
What we think, we grow.
Evan Folds Background
Evan's experience is rooted in following a passion for the living world, a desire to witness the living whole, and a fascination with start-up organizations grounded in living ideas.
He started a retail garden center called Progressive Gardens in 2002 that specialized in hydroponic and beyond organic gardening techniques, including composting, aquaponics, urban farming, compost tea, organic lawn care, and what is now called agroecology, or "regenerative agriculture".
For 20+ years Evan has pursued bioeconomics, and trained in the art of teaching and connecting with people on the subjects of food, farming, and health. In 2005 he founded and operated a commercial wheatgrass and microgreen growing business for over a decade that served the local health food and restaurant community. It was through this experience that he would come to intimately understand the value of life force in food, and the powerful influence living soil and living foods can have on people, plants, and planet.
One of the original inspirations for Evan's work is the legacy of Dr. Rudolf Steiner. In the preface to The Agriculture Course lectures given by Steiner in 1924, he was asked why people’s inner guidance and spiritual impulses were so weak, his thought provoking and surprising answer from over 100 years ago was as follows:
"This is a problem of nutrition. Nutrition as it is to-day does not supply the strength necessary for manifesting the spirit in physical life. A bridge can no longer be built from thinking to will and action. Food plants no longer contain the forces people need for this.”
A serial entrepreneur, in 2008 Evan founded and operated an organic lawn care company called A Natural Approach for over three years that specialized in growing and regenerating soil using compost tea and base saturation soil testing that has become the Living Land Program.
Through his experimentation with compost tea Evan pioneered the development of vortex-style compost tea brewing systems. He founded and operated a wholesale/distribution company in 2007 called Progressive Farms that manufactured the Microbe Maker compost tea system, including a Dealer network of hundreds of garden centers around the United States brewing the “perpetual compost tea brewing” developed in Progressive Gardens.
In addition to product development and manufacturing, Progressive Farms operated a fourteen acre market vegetable farm with a community supported agriculture (CSA) program that fed over seventy families in cooperation with a local residential housing development.
With the creation of Be Agriculture in January 2018, Evan brought all of his business and agricultural experience into a focus on bioeconomics, and the goal of catalyzing bioregional regenerative agriculture systems.
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Over the last seven years, Evan has worked with many pioneering organizations, including Project Biome, Farmers Footprint, Northside Food Coop, Kiss the Ground, Working Landscapes, and many more.
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Evan serves as an elected Supervisor of New Hanover Soil & Water Conservation District, and serves as President of the Board of Directors if the Eagles Island Nature Park project. He received a bachelor of science in Biology and a minor in Religion from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and resides with his family in Wilmington, NC.
Evan is a thought leader, an ecological entrepreneur, a published writer, and a proud father. He works as a consultant for regenerative projects around the world, and he looks forward to working with you towards a future of human thriving.
Be in touch!
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Email: evan@beagriculture.com
