CO-FOUNDERS

Neil Logan is an agricultural innovator, drawing inspiration from agro-successional restoration, ethnobotany, mycology, permaculture, and numerous other fields. For the past 16 years, Neil has developed practical strategies, inspired by the work of Ernst Götsch. Together with his wife Sophia Bowart, he has been refining practical strategies for diverse agricultural production systems that can rapidly recover the costs of establishment. Neil has worked on projects in many different ecosystems around the globe, including in Hawaii, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, New Zealand, and Canada. He is currently co-managing Mohala Lehua Farm and FARM Center and authoring several publications about agroforestry and Kiawe (Prosopis limensis) in Hawaii. Neil is a dynamic orator, teaching agroforestry, mycology, permaculture, horticulture, and herbalism for nearly 20 years. His capacity to impart big picture as well as practical perspectives to diverse audiences is one of his greatest strengths. In 2017, he co-founded Aloha Syntropica with Craig Elevitch and Sophia Bowart, and was a lead instructor in the Regeneration Agroforestry Workshop Series.

Sophia Bowart had a dream of transforming an open pasture into a food-producing regenerative ecosystem. She leveraged her background in non-profit development and sustainable business management to pioneer Mohala Lehua Farm in Hawi, Hawaii in 2006. Today, Mohala Lehua is still a rare example of regeneration of degraded pasture lands in Hawaii. Together with her husband Neil Logan, she has authored and presented on sustainable sandalwood agroforestry systems demonstrated at their farm. Her passions for the economics of sustainable agriculture have inspired her to co-found FARM Center, which is dedicated to the recovery and vitalization of our planet's varied forest ecosystems, by protecting healthy watersheds and cultivating biological and cultural diversity. She has a knack for processing raw products from the farm into delicious and nutritious fare. In 2016, FARM Center in coordination with Agroforestry Net, brought Ernst Götsch to Hawaii in order to bring Syntropic Agriculture—Regeneration Agroforestry to the Pacific. In 2017, she co-founded Aloha Syntropica with Craig Elevitch and Neil Logan, and was a lead instructor in the Regeneration Agroforestry Workshop Series.