Growing the Future

Tom Wolf the Nozzle Guy

Episode Summary

Dan Aberhart speaks with Tom Wolf, Scientist, at Agrimetrix Research & Training, about how bringing empathy to ag helps build his community as a farm boy turned urbanite and getting to the nitty-gritty about why nozzles are the last to be picked at the party. Tom focuses on the things that matter most in life, empathy, communication, and relationships and works to understand farming so that he can give good answers to his client's pressing questions.

Episode Notes

 "and you know, that, that's kind of the thing. So I said, I was thinking about that. It's like, like, which foot do I put?

You know, which camp do I put my foot into? And I have my feet perpetually in more than one camp. It's a weird situation. I'm, I'm a farmer, I'm a farm boy. I grew up on the farm. I love farming. I love farmers. I love the farming industry. I like crops. I like everything about it and yet I also live in the inner city and I see all the issues that they have.

And those are also mine, you know? And so we started a community garden. It's an organic community garden. It is, uh, you know, I commute, I'm a cycling advocate. I'm a, I'm an advocate for things that are important to my community, right. And my community happens to be the inner city."

- Tom Wolf [09:57-10:24]