Helen Atthowe

Helen has worked for 35 years to connect farming, food systems, land stewardship, and conservation. She currently farms and does soil- and natural enemies’ habitat- building research on her new 5-acre farm in Western Montana. Helen and her late husband farmed a 211 acre organic farm in Eastern Oregon doing mainly orchard and vegetable production, created educational videos at: https://www.youtube.com/user/AgrarianDreams/videos, and did video presentations about their ecological farming methods. Helen has an M.S. in Horticulture from Rutgers University and has worked in education and research at Rutgers, the University of Arkansas, and Oregon State University. She was a Horticulture Extension Agent in Montana for 17 and also owned/operated a 30 acre certified organic vegetable/fruit farm in Montana. She co-owned with her late husband a 26 acre 35- year-certified organic orchard in California. Helen has been a board member for the Organic Farming Research Foundation and an advisor for Wild Farm Alliance. Author of “The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System for Organic Agriculture”.