More About Nathan M. Galaviz

As a Regional Coordinator with Agrarian Trust, Nathan serves on multiple Agrarian Commons boards to support existing Agrarian Commons land-based projects with real estate research, due diligence, transactional work, conservation easement, farm stewardship, management planning, and organizational as well as board administration. Nathan supports the development of emerging commons around the country in outreach, education, community engagement, and networking.

Nathan has always had a passion for land stewardship and agroecology. This led him to a career in agriculture with a focus on market gardening and farm stewardship. There he found many opportunities to encourage the growth of the local food economy and food sovereignty in his community. From growing food on leased land, to property management, to eventually attaining a real estate license and helping his clients identify, evaluate, and acquire some land of their own. Nathan has continued to be a student of the history of agriculture and the dispossession of land in this country, and he repeatedly saw that lack of access to capital and secure farmland tenure was a shared struggle with beginning farmers across the country. These challenges were reverberated across a nation of beginning farmers awaiting the great land transfer of the next decade.

Nathan aligns deeply with Agrarian Trust’s mission is to support land access for the next generation of farmers. He works diligently to address inequities in land ownership and tenure directly, holistically raise awareness, build community, fundraise, and work within the commons model to decommodify farmland, putting it back in the hands of innovative farmers to engage in ecological stewardship, catalyze community, and regeneratively grow food.

Nathan calls the Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina home and resides on the ancestral homeland of the Tsalagi (Eastern Band of Cherokee) in the Broad River watershed. He lives with his partner Sam, his daughters Rowan and Raiya, and his loyal dog Neela.