CWC HIRES NEW FARM MANAGER

Central Wyoming College’s new farm manager and instructor Ethan Page will develop the college’s grant-funded Farm Incubator and Beginning Farmer Training program. As part of the Alpine Science Institute, Page will oversee the development of student training plots, farm training curriculum including crop production and farm business management, and recruit and mentor aspiring and beginning farmers. 

To the new position, Page brings a diverse background experience that includes organic vegetable production, controlled environment agriculture, operations management, education, and environmental science.

Originally from New York, Page has been involved with agriculture since he was young.

“From age 8-18 my summers were spent traveling around showing sheep, and when I wasn’t doing that I was playing baseball,” he said.

Page earned a bachelor’s degree in large animal science and environmental studies from Delaware Valley College in Pennsylvania in 2009. He met his wife shortly after while doing volunteer work in Australia, and the pair continued traveling.

“We’ve bounced around between Australia, the UK, Canada, and the US, living wherever we could both make it work,” Page said.

Page earned a master’s in bioscience with a focus on local food production in developing countries from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

In 2015, he and his wife moved to Colorado, where Page worked for an urban farming company in Boulder for three years. Page accepted a management position at Altius Farms in Denver in 2018. Here, he managed the construction and daily operations of a 7,000 sq ft greenhouse.

When Page saw the farm manager/instructor, Wind River Farm Incubator position online, he was interested in the opportunity to combine his agricultural and instructional skills.