Streamlining Soil Health on the Organic Farm - Jul 2026

📅 22 July 2026 | 📍 Farming is Life, 683 River St., Winchendon, 01475, United States

Farmers are constantly juggling recordkeeping, compliance requirements, crop planning decisions, and soil health management, often across multiple spreadsheets, notebooks, and disconnected systems. Whether you’re certified organic, transitioning toward certification, or simply looking for better ways to organize your farm data, this workshop at Farming is Life will introduce their new platform, FAHM (Farm App Hub and Manager), designed to simplify farm management and strengthen decision-making. Together, we’ll explore how FAHM is already being used on working farms to streamline compliance, automate recordkeeping, manage soil health data, and support long-term planning. Participants will also get a look at tools emerging from the farmers at Farming Is Life around soil monitoring, greenhouse automation, and grower distribution networks, along with guidance on setting up profiles and accounts.

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Participants will:

Learn how FAHM supports compliance, organic certification records, and day-to-day farm management

See examples of how farms are automating crop planning, soil health tracking, greenhouse systems, and recordkeeping

See the interactions with soil testing, and that data can be stored, interpreted, and used to guide management decisions over time

Understand how this tool interacts with the Organic Product Database to better understand approved & prohibited materials

Hear about how this tool is connecting growers, distributors, and farm networks

Have the opportunity to win a complimentary subscription including onboarding assistance including setting up accounts, profiles, and workflow systems. The farm(s) selected for this will be announced in 2026.

About:

Farming is Life is a family farm in North Central Massachusetts that does not use chemicals and plastics to aid in the production of vegetables for our communities. We follow regenerative farming practices with the goal of minimizing off farm inputs. We do this in part by using trees from our forests to build mulch for compost, using manure from cows that are fed chemical free hay from our farm to add nutrients and harnessing biology to create the balance needed for healthy soil, happy beneficial bugs and bountiful harvests. This is all done with a holistic approach to the farm as a self-contained ecosystem that aims to work with nature not against it.

About the Instructors:

Richy is the founder of FAHM (fahmapp.com), a multi-tenant SaaS platform built to help farms run every side of their operation and automate essential functions, all in one place. The platform is currently in beta testing, and he puts the platform through its paces on his own family farm, Farming is Life Farm, where it handles the POS, inventory, CSA programs, consignment, payments, and IoT integrations. Before farming and software, Richy built a career as a Grammy-winning music producer. He works at the intersection of agriculture, software, and AI, with a particular interest in giving small farms the kind of tools that have historically only been available to enterprise operations.

Rubén Parrilla (he/him) is the Soil Technical Coordinator for NOFA/Mass and trained in microscopic soil microbial identification through the Soil Food Web School. He is a Certified Lab Tech and studied Environmental Design at the University of Puerto Rico. Rubén has 15 years’ experience working at different capacities in the environmental laboratory industry. He has been performing soil carbon proxy testing, soil health assessments, soil chemical analysis, and soil microbiological evaluations for NOFA/Mass over the past year and has extensive experience farming and working with farmers, including beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers. Rubén performs soil health-related outreach and education events for NOFA/Mass by leading monthly farmer learning calls, providing hands-on workshops and instruction at soil health education events, and networking with farmers and individuals in the agricultural industry. He is a fluent and native Spanish speaker and fully English/Spanish bilingual.

More Information:

Portions of our farm tour will cover uneven terrain.  We want to make sure your accessibility needs are met during the event. Please share with us your needs regarding (but not limited to): physical accessibility, allergies, noise, scent, gender, intellectual accessibility, and any instructions or tips to help you fully participate.

Refund/Inclement Weather Policy:

For information on our refund and inclement weather policy, click here.

Capacity:

Capacity for this event is limited to 20 people. Register ahead of time to secure your space!

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Questions?

Contact Hannah at events@nofamass.org

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