Mike Lewis has farming in his DNA. Born in the aptly named town of Farmington, Maine, Mike Lewis follows in his great grandfather’s footsteps as the first family member in two generations to continue the farming legacy. Raised throughout Maine, green farms and rolling acres accented Lewis’s childhood and cemented in him a love for the natural process of agriculture. An Army veteran, having served in the Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery from 1992-1995,
Mike Lewis understands the importance…
of tradition and the value of hard work. After the Military, Lewis worked on Lobster boats and offshore draggers fishing for haddock and monkfish as well as summered as a licensed arborist. From there, he explored sales positions in various companies selling products and worked his way up from sales trainer, to media buyer to script writer. The main investor of the company ultimately hired Lewis to establish a sales call center for a hedge fund in 2000.There, in addition to sales, he managed portfolios and built relationships with customers as well as trained all incoming sales team members.
Five years later, Lewis opened his own branch where he had 22employees in 12 state that produced sales of financial products in excess of $25 million annually. In 2008, Lewis had an awakening that got him thinking about his legacy and purpose. This led him on a journey across the country looking to re-connect with nature. During this period, he spent time camping, canoeing, whitewater rafting and cooking in restaurants while reading a lot of books on philosophy, religion and ecology. He eventually landed in Kentucky and realized that it was farming that was calling to him.
Mike Lewis is the Co-Founder and Director of Agriculture at Third Wave Farms and is speaking at the USA CBD Expo on Regenerative Agriculture
In 2009, he took an internship on an organic farm in Gravel Switch, Kentucky and founded Growing Warriors – the first Veteran oriented food security project with a mission to equip, asset and train military veterans in production agriculture to feed themselves, their families and their communities. To date, the organization has provided education and training resources to hundreds of veterans and their families. In 2014, Lewis began farming Hemp as part of the Kentucky Pilot Program. With the support of Fibershed and Patagonia Lewis became the first federally permitted hemp farmer in the US since prohibition. To date, Lewis has won numerous awards for his work in agriculture and farming, including the 2013 and 2014 Local Food Hero award, the 2015 Wendell Berry New Agrarian Kentucky Colonel award, the 2014 Yahoo People That Made the World a Better Place award, and the GRIST 50 award.
Mike Lewis is an Archive Tag for Loren Weisman’s website.
************************************************************
A Brand Messaging Strategist with a focus on
the authenticity, authority, optics, psychology &
perceptions of a brand, persona or product.
************************************************************
Ad: PO Box 770991, Winter Garden, FL 34777-0991
Vd: @lorenweisman
************************************************************
Blogs: https://lorenweisman.com/
Podcasts: https://gopod.me/waitwhatreallyok
Videos: https://youtube.com/lorenweisman/
Pictures: https://instagram.com/lorenweisman/
All other links: https://linkkle.com/lorenweisman
************************************************************
