The road to Eden Share.
"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."
-Michael Pollan
Scott discovered his love of plants and agriculture at a young age in upstate New York. When he was 12, he worked on a local vegetable farm, Judson’s Farm, in Wingdale, NY. He learned all about farming by planting, picking, weeding, and selling vegetables during summer breaks. He worked many summers and saved money for college.
Scott attended college in Connecticut and discovered a passion for social justice and helping others. He became a social worker and earned a Master in Social Work. For more than 25 years, Scott worked with people with developmental disabilities, the homeless, disabled, and individuals struggling with mental health and substance abuse.
In 2018, Scott and his husband David began attending organic farming conferences and studying regenerative agriculture. In 2019, they started Queens Farms LLC. They created a 5,000 square foot market garden at Scott’s parents’ residence in upstate New York and formed a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) that supplied 15 families in Queens with weekly boxes of summer produce from 2020 through 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic when food security was top of mind for many people. While operating the CSA, Scott and David turned their attention to exploring a way to bring agriculture, social justice, and mental/physical wellness together.
They now live in the county where Scott’s passion for plants and people took root. With the details for creating community garden-sharing models for human services providers worked out, Eden Share was formed in November 2023.