About Me
I’m Tyler Kern, a farmer, technologist, and consultant with more than a decade of hands-on experience in small-scale organic agriculture.
My work has always lived somewhere between the field and the computer. I’ve grown vegetables, built hoophouses and irrigation systems, maintained organic certification, operated equipment, planned crops, written grants, built websites, created spreadsheets and internal systems, and helped agricultural organizations solve the less glamorous problems that keep day-to-day work moving.
Farmer First
I spent more than ten years working in diversified organic vegetable production at Red Acre Farm in southern Utah.
That meant doing a little bit of everything: planting, cultivating, harvesting, irrigation, crop planning, infrastructure, equipment, recordkeeping, certification, labeling, and the countless small decisions involved in keeping a farm running through a season.
That experience still shapes how I approach consulting.
A solution that looks good on paper doesn’t mean much if it creates more work in the field, depends on information nobody will actually record, or requires a system that is too complicated to maintain.
I care about what works in practice.
Technology Background
Before farming became the center of my professional life, I studied computer science and worked in software development.
I’ve continued using that background throughout my agricultural work, building and maintaining websites, improving digital workflows, developing spreadsheets and forms, troubleshooting technical problems, and helping small organizations choose tools that fit the way they actually operate.
I’m particularly interested in simple systems.
The best solution is not always the newest application or the most sophisticated piece of software. Sometimes it is a purpose-built website. Sometimes it is a spreadsheet, a well-designed form, or a better process.
The goal is to solve the problem without creating unnecessary complexity.
Beyond Utah
In 2026 I stepped away from my normal routine in the United States to spend an extended period traveling, working, and learning on farms in East Asia.
I’ve worked alongside farmers in Japan and South Korea, seeing different approaches to vegetable production, labor, equipment, markets, community, and farm organization.
I’m less interested in collecting “best practices” than in understanding why a practice works in a particular place.
Different farms operate under different constraints. Land, labor, climate, markets, culture, infrastructure, and available technology all shape what makes sense.
That perspective has reinforced something I already believed: good consulting begins by understanding the operation before prescribing a solution.
How I Work
Most of the projects I take on do not fit neatly into a single category.
A farm may need help thinking through an infrastructure project and then writing the grant application to fund it.
An agricultural nonprofit may need a website update, a better registration system, and help organizing the event that registration supports.
A farmer may simply need another experienced person to look at a problem, ask useful questions, and help work through the options.
That kind of work suits me.
I like practical problems, especially the ones that fall somewhere between the field, the office, and the computer.
