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“We can protect nature and rebuild local ecosystems together.”
🍃 We started Habitat Farms with the belief that farms are more than what feeds us—they hold a beneficial power to naturally solve complex environmental issues.
And the farmers who tend that land are first and foremost environmentalists. We help them do what they do best—that being good land stewards.
Partnering with local farmers… we can protect nature and rebuild local ecosystems together.
So our mission was born: Let’s create a company that works with farmers to harness the awesome power of plants to add vital acres of beneficial habitat that makes American farms productive, environmentally friendly, and a better partner with nature and Planet Earth.
Bringing together 30 years of friendship, agriculture, and brand knowledge our mission for Habitat Farms is to help raise the standard of farming by restoring natural habitat to help improve local biodiversity, improve water quality, and mitigate climate change.
We hope you’ll support our line of pantry provisions that powers our mission and help us make a meaningful difference on farms and in local communities everywhere.
Founding Partners
Andy Carrigan
Head of Brand Operations
As a founding partner of Habitat Farms, Andy brings over 20 years of marketing experience. While he has never been a farmer, he did spend ten summers landscaping and five months after college working on a Wyoming ranch as a trashman. This seminal experience solidified his love of honest work, open land, good people, and telling stories that would later become a trademark of his career, advertising.
As an award-winning creative director, Andy has created campaigns for some of the most widely recognized brands in the world, including Nike, ESPN, MLB, Coca-Cola, Budweiser, Captain Morgan, Miller High Life, and Instagram. A writer by trade—with a senior leadership record across several global brands—Andy has sold Budweiser to farmers, baseball to ranchers, Olympic gymnastics to longshoreman, and coffee to midnight-oil-burning grad students.
He’s excited to lead a mission-led brand and be a partner with farmers and the environment.
Toby Lloyd
Head of Farm Operations
Toby's experience in agriculture is life long and diverse. With roots in a multi-generational family farm in Pennsylvania, Toby started working in and with production agriculture at a young age. He has worked on a variety of farms - from small hay farms to 5,000-acre grain operations. These jobs in the field have given Toby a solid understanding of modern agriculture, its practices, and the daily decisions that farmers make.
Away from the tractor, Toby spent 12 years with the United States Department of Agriculture, 8 in the National Office in Washington D.C.. At the USDA, Toby worked directly on complex agriculture policy, capping his career as the Chief of Farm Programs at the Federal level for Maryland. In this leadership role, he administered his Agency's Federal Farm Bill programs such as conservation, price support, and disaster assistance. He also focused on Chesapeake Bay restoration-- working with Federal, State, Local and NGO organizations involved in the Bay restoration effort-- serving as a key point person for collaboration with the EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program Office.
Doug Chen
Head of Financial Operations
Doug’s roots in finance started behind a cash register in his family’s grocery store in Astoria, Queens. Growing up in a small business, he learned the value of hard work stocking shelves and brings direct experience to the Habitat Farms team as someone who understands the importance of supporting the local economy and the value that fresh, quality food plays in the community.
As a seasoned investment banking professional for over 20 years, Doug has been advising and providing financial solutions to some of the world’s leading corporate clients in Emerging Markets. Having financed growers of avocados, cattle ranchers to sugar plantations, he directly understands the environmental issues impacting farmers. In the pursuit for balance between economic growth and the environment, his recent focus has been in securing financing and micro-lending for sustainable and green-related projects in Latin America and Mexico.