Adam

Adam Montri coordinates the SOF outreach efforts around passive solar green houses and does outreach work with both urban and rural growers across the state of MI. Adam was one of the original student organic farmers while an undergraduate at MSU. He then went on to get his master's degree in Horticulture at Penn State University where he had an emphasis on organic hightunnel tomato production and taught a vegetable production laboratory course. He returned to MSU and the SOF in the summer of 2006 as both the on-farm hightunnel construction and operation coordinator for a research project including hightunnels on 12 farms and as the hoophouse program leader funded by the USDA Risk Management Community Partnership Program. In 2009 Adam continues supporting farmers around the state including urban agriculture related programs in Flint and Detroit as an outreach academic specialist in the Horticulture Department.