In this episode I sit down with Gary Borglund, who does something you do not hear about often: he works across land development, agriculture, and food access all at once, and ties them together into one mission.

Gary is Executive Director of Generous Harvest Wisconsin, where he partners with growers to secure food at reduced cost for the organizations and communities that rely on it, and he is helping lead a new initiative to build a dedicated growing facility to produce and distribute food at greater scale. Through his own firm, Land and Ag Solutions, he advises on complex projects involving land, agriculture, and redevelopment, including historic and complicated properties, land use and redevelopment planning, grant aligned positioning, and agricultural and nonprofit partnerships.

We talk about how land and food connect in his work, what it takes to reposition an underused or difficult property into something valuable again, and why the projects worth doing are usually the slow, complicated ones that require patience and a lot of people rowing in the same direction.

In this episode:

• Leading Generous Harvest Wisconsin and getting food to the people who need it
• The new growing facility and what it makes possible
• Turning underused and complex properties into long term value
• How the land side and the food side of his work connect
• Advising on historic and complex projects through Land and Ag Solutions

East Side Enterprise is hosted by Sam McKinney and produced locally by McKinney Creative Ventures. Know a business owner whose story should be told? Reach out and tell me who I should talk to next.