About me
Reggie has been working in farm business and sustainable agriculture development for 30 years. He serves as the CEO of California FarmLink where he facilitated the organization’s emergence as a CDFI in 2013. FarmLink has provided $95 million in financing to over 600 farms for operating, infrastructure and land. FarmLink conducts business resilience courses and provides technical assistance in Spanish and English for beginning, low-resource, immigrant and underserved farmers, and has helped over 3,000 farmers to find, lease or buy land. In 2021, FarmLink was approved by the California Ocean Protection Council to manage the California Fisheries Fund, and started lending to small fishing operations. Reggie’s career spans from diverse organic farm management, to agricultural development projects in Sri Lanka, India and Africa.