Patrick Michaels

I am a finance and business development professional working in agriculture and food. Over the past two years I helped the Savanna Institute develop and launch its for-profit subsidiary, Canopy Farm Management, where I now serve as CFO. I have previous experience as a startup founder, in venture capital and private equity, and as owner of a local food business in Spring Green, Wisconsin, where I live on a budding agroforestry farm. I appreciate the ways in which agroforestry systems call for more thoughtful, integrated land use, and I am working to develop the regional capacities that will enable such a perennialized agricultural system to become widespread across the Midwest.