Taylor Clark

Landscaper Turned Elderberry Grower

In Late 2019, Taylor cut their first rows and purchased hundreds of cuttings which they planted in 2020. In 2021, they sold their entire crop in just 4 days!

Elderberries are just the beginning. Future plans include installing more specialty fruits - Aronia berries, Japanese Haskaps (honeyberry), Goji berries, and agroforestry crops.

Terry Durham

The Father of American Elderberry

Terry is the Elderberry Man. He raises elderberries, and turns berries into a line of products made from the 100% pure premium elderberry juice. But more importantly, Terry raises growers! 

Terry is an educator and often speaks at Mother Earth News fairs and other venues of similar popularity. Terry is appearing at several winter farm shows, including the Mid-America Organic Association Conference & Trade Show in January in Independence, MO.

Andrew Thomas

Elderberry Researcher Extraordinaire

Andrew Thomas enjoys conducting research on a wide variety of horticultural and agroforestry crops and crop production techniques. His main research interests include the development of overlooked native fruit and nut crops with commercial potential, but he also studies aspects of mainstream horticultural crop production.

His research projects at the Southwest Research Center have included black walnuts, pecans, hickories, persimmons, pawpaws, elderberries, blackberries, grapes, apples, tomatoes, melons, asparagus, culinary and medicinal herbs, wildflowers, prairie restoration, wood biomass quantification and high tunnel and solar-heated greenhouse production.

Trisha Jackson

Elderberry Entrepreneur

This 20-year digital marketing expert pivoted her corporate career to an entrepreneurial one when she found herself serving thousands of women by teaching them about natural health. She quickly grew a wildly profitable wellness business as a result, that allowed her to retire and leave the 9-5 world behind.

Trisha Jackson now sells her line of elderberry products nationwide and teaches hundreds of at-home natural health enthusiasts how to grow their own profitable part-time and full-time elderberry syrup businesses, too.

Charlie Little

Healed by Elderberry

Charlie Little is from Arkansas, USA. He learned about Elderberry in late autumn of 2018 when he got sick and tried a popular over-the-counter cold and flu remedy made with Elderberry. Within three days, he says, "I could not even tell that I had been sick at all."

This sparked an interest to learn all he could about Elderberry in order to understand how and why it worked so well for him. Since then, he's created the largest virtual elderberry group (40,000 strong), started an elderberry business, and helped propagate elderberry all through his area. Charlie will share with us how elder healed him, his innovative propagation techniques, and just how easy it is to get started!

Marty and Sara Cox

1st Year Elderberry Farmers

Marty and Sara are both teachers whose dream is to retire one of them to manage the family elderberry business with their two sons. They attended our workshop last year, saw the opportunity and put in almost 1000 elderberry plants. They share what you need to know to to get started, the goals they have for their new business, and how it has given them something to work together on as a family!

John Moody

Author, The Elderberry Book

The Moody family has farmed and homesteaded on 35 acres in the rolling hills of Kentucky just outside Louisville for the last decade.

A well-known author and speaker, John has written four books to help farmers and homesteaders achieve their dreams to pursue lives with greater freedom, self-sufficiency, sustainability, and success.

The founder of multiple profitable businesses in food and farming, he is excited about the opportunities the next decade presents for innovative young entrepreneurs, including farmers!

John dives into the history of elderberry, shares about some of the misconceptions about this wonderful plant, and just how easy it is to get started. 

Michael Kilpatrick

Michael is an elderberry fanatic, farmer, educator, Thriving Farmer Podcast host, and Thriving Farmer Summits host - helping farmers build profitable, sustainable businesses. He started growing elderberries on his farm and hasn't looked back!