Weston Lombard is the steward of Solid Ground Farm, a 60-acre agroforestry and sustainable agriculture education and event center in SE Ohio, where he curates Ohio’s largest and most diverse forest garden. With a passion for native and naturalizing tree crops, Weston devoted the last decade to exploring mulberry as a productive crop for the Midwest and is the author of a number of SARE-funded publications and research projects on the subject. Weston is also a hobby nursery operator and an avid grafter and tree propagator. He is currently working with a team to develop a forest products processing facility and a community forest as part of a larger vision to grow regenerative economies rooted in healthy inhabited ecosystems.