The Agriculture Community Development Project
(ACD Project)
Providing economic development opportunities to communities through developing sustainable agricultural resources and practices so that communities are preserved and prosper.
• Support communities in rural areas in developing new business in the areas of agriculture and related, supportive industries.
• Identify rural communities that have multiple resources suitable for the development of agriculture and related, supportive industries;
• Create high value, sustainable agricultural industries that support the natural resources of the community including soil, water and ecosystems.
• Provide education and training opportunities for rural communities, especially rural youth.
• Educate the community on the benefits and availability of technologies that promote, energy conservation, green technologies and natural design.
• Solicit and receive contributions, purchase, own and sell real estate and personal property, to make contracts, to invest corporate funds, to spend corporate funds for corporate purposes, and to engage in any activity “in furtherance of, incidental to, or connected with any of the other purposes
About Us
Andrew Harley
BSc (Hons) Applied Physical Geography/Geology (University of New South Wales); Ph.D. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (University of Western Australia):
Dr. Harley has over 30 years as a consulting soil scientist and geologist to resource companies managing drastically disturbed lands in Australia and the Western United States, Mexico and Canada. For the last 20 years, he has been involved with closure and reclamation planning and implementation of mine sites and mine waste, with the last 5 years working with a reclamation consulting and construction company in Colorado developing reclamation plans for mining and pipeline companies across the United States.
Dr. Harley has a strong field-based approach to solving soil problems and developed methods of assessing soil health in remote areas that he often works in. As part of this work, Dr. Harley has been at the forefront of innovative organic, mineral and biomineral fertilizer development to ameliorate nutritional and soil water issues in the arid west, and has been working directly with the implementation of biochar in arid environments to improve water and nutrient cycling.
Susan Harley
BS Biology/Chemistry (Colorado State University); BA Secondary Education and Teaching (Metropolitan State University of Denver), Professional Project Management (PMP) Certification:
Ms. Harley has extensive experience in the area of curriculum development, teaching and training as both a secondary teacher and corporate trainer; she has started numerous businesses of her own over the last 30 years and been a business coach helping other small and medium-size businesses grow.
Ms. Harley brings a creative, solution-oriented, customized approach creating project plans, launches, and timelines, resource allocation, risk management assessment, budgets and deliverables, Ms. Harley has extensive sales and marketing experience.