Stuart Farr is the owner of Hudson Valley Hops & Grains, a 400-acre certified organic farm in Columbia County, New York. Brought up on a mixed arable and beef farm in England, Stuart has been farming in the Hudson Valley since 2015. The farm produces human food crops: wheat, barley, rye, einkorn, and oats for milling, malting, and distilling; sunflower, canola, camelina, and flax, which are pressed into oil on the farm; black beans and buckwheat.

Hudson Valley Hops & Grains practices biological farming, managing the soil as the living ecosystem that it is. Foundational to this approach is maintaining a soil environment which shelters and feeds soil micro-organisms, which in turn make soil minerals available to plants. They feed this underground wildlife with molasses, liquid fish, and kelp, as well as cover crops.