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Lauren Valentino is preparing to take over Forest Edge Farm, her family’s farm in Grass Valley, California. Along with the land, she’s inheriting decades of hard-earned knowledge, including her father’s handwritten crop ledger, kept since 1982: “It’s so much data, it almost scares you away.” Most generational knowledge remains fragmented and insights are difficult to transfer. Rather than letting that history stay locked in notebooks, Lauren has decided to turn it into something she could use day to day, digitizing it and making it accessible with the platform.

“Every single crop we’ve ever planted is now accessible,” she explains. What used to live in memory or on paper is now something she can reference instantly–past planting dates, yields, and practices, all in one place. It’s less about preserving records for their own sake than about continuity: carrying a lifetime of experience forward as she steps into this new role.

“What used to take phone calls, guesswork, or delaying the job, now gets resolved in real time with a simple question.”

Day to day, Todd has become an integral part of Forest Edge’s workflow. Walking the farm, Lauren uses the mobile app to log observations, check details, and plan next steps. When tomatoes get blossom end rot, she asks [platform] what was wrong. When she decided on carrots for a fall crop, she purchased the regenerative seed directly through the platform. Tasks that once required stopping, remembering, or circling back now happen as the work unfolds.

With less time spent tracking information, Lauren can focus on decisions that actually move Forest Edge forward. The experience and judgement were always there; what has changed is how quickly she can act on it.

The Valentino family has seen the number of small organic farms in their area plunge in recent years. In that kind of landscape, being able to act with confidence, grounded in decades of firsthand knowledge, is how you keep going.

Todd is honored to support Forest Edge’s journey, and we’re proud to be partnered with Lauren and the entire Forest Edge team as they work to transform their farm.