AMY TODISCO

John Farr

John is a co-founder and former president of Farr’s Tree Service Inc., which he and his father started in 1975.  John is also a co-owner of Green Mountain Harvest. John grew up on a dairy farm and has operated a small roadside vegetable stand in the past.  

John is responsible for staffing, office/financial management/invoicing/sourcing (through his daughter, Sonja), assisting with sales, and managing greenhouse production.

Dave Hartshorn

Dave is the owner of Hartshorn's Organic Farm Market and co-owner of Green Mountain Harvest.  Dave grew up on a dairy farm and has been operating his well known organic produce business in Waitsfield for 30 years.  He and his partner, Amy, offer educational agritourism activities on the organic farm. He has a degree in marketing and spent his early professional career in marketing and sales.  

Dave is responsible for GMH’s marketing, securing all of the vendor accounts, order fulfillment, managing the growing, packing and harvesting of crops.

Ted Farr

Ted and John are brothers, they worked together in the family tree service. Ted was a tree climber and a tree health consultant. He’s also a co-owner at Green Mountain Harvest (GMH)

At GMH, he's responsible for operation of the hydroponic systems, plant health diagnosis, and day to day planting and harvesting.

Amy Todisco

Amy is Dave Hartshorn’s life partner and GMH’s website and social media creator. Amy also offers marketing support.

She is the owner of Vermont Food & Farm Tours. She’s the marketing and event planning director, and helps grow and run Hartshorn Organic Farm with Dave.

ANNOUNCEMENT (As of 3/11/2021):

After nearly 9 years of helping to build our successful business, founding partner, Dave Hartshorn, is selling his shares to remaining partners, John and Ted Farr, and moving on from Green Mountain Harvest to the next adventure.

We are very thankful and grateful for all that Dave brought to the business. With a 30+ year background as a commercial organic produce grower, his plant growing expertise was invaluable.

Dave's work ethic is like nobody else we've ever known. He can accomplish as much as 2 people in the time it takes just him to do the tasks. We will never know how he was able to get up in the middle of the night for all of these years to harvest and pack produce and then go on to work a long grueling day on his organic farm. Dave also drove our delivery truck to many of the Vermont stores each week.

Dave is an experienced and articulate spokesperson, and did a lot to promote our brand and business. He also has marketing savvy.

Perhaps most importantly, he was responsible for securing 99% of our accounts in Vermont and outside of the state. In particular, he and his life partner, Amy, met the Whole Foods buyers at a Boston Food Show soon after we opened our doors, and played a primary role in our ability to secure that account, which has been a gamechanger for the company.

We also want to thank Amy Todisco, who devoted 100's of volunteer hours to making this business successful. From leading weekly partner meetings and bringing in experts for advice; to creating the website, taking pictures and video; to the creation of the Facebook business page; promoting and educating people about the business and hydroponic growing in general to hundreds of people through her unique food and farm tours; and always looking for ways to improve things, her help has been so important.

We wish Dave and Amy well.