Introducing TransPlanter

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Earned experience

Rafaela Crevoshay’s adventure with agriculture started on a Vermont hillside decades ago. Inspired by the promise of organic agriculture, Crevoshay enrolled in the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, earning a degree in Horticulture and a Certificate of Emphasis in International Agriculture. A career in growing and managing multiple crops ensued, including mango, papaya, mushrooms, avocado, and heirloom tomato. Recently, the Transplanter’s career has focused on organic and regenerative features of soil management for the home garden as well as large scale farming operations. She’s earned a Certificate of Compost Management from the University of Maine’s compost school. She’s also recognized as a Certified Crop Adviser by the American Society of Agronomy and as a Certified Professional Horticulturist by the American Society of Horticultural Science. She has taught Transformational Gardening nationally via webinars sponsored by the Climate Victory Garden initiative of Green America, Washington, DC.

 

Expansive vision

Embracing Regenerative Ag as the inevitable companion to Organic Ag, has enabled the TransPlanter to envision Transformational Agriculture, the next generation of growers’ methodology.  It integrates the toxin-avoiding aspects of Organics with the No-Till facilitated mycelial networks of Regenerative Ag. It projects the benefits of biodiversity and elevates the roles of multiple species of fungi, bacteria, insects, worms, lizards, birds and animals as essential stakeholders in a complex system.

Personal perspective

Life’s abundant diversity mirrors the Transplanter’s personal evolution, herself having transitioned from male to female a few years ago. A model of diversity that’s based on thousands of species working together in the soil, sustaining a self-enriching system.

 

Vision quest

The TransPlanter aspires to position herself as a pioneer of innovative methods, avoiding the obligatory toxins and nutrient excesses of twentieth century agriculture. A transformed agriculture will tune in to historical flaws and avoid high tech fixes. It will rely on novel and informed manipulation of natural processes. It will distinguish itself with unprecedented ecological density.