Agriculture at just the right depth

Ariel Patton writes and illustrates Topsoil, a monthly newsletter that delivers frameworks to help readers make sense of agriculture. Ariel is currently a Director of Product at InnerPlant, a company using bioengineering to allow plants to alert farmers of stressors in their fields.

Ariel’s career has focused on driving digital transformation of agriculture to help farmers manage their operations more profitably and sustainably. She has been working professionally in agriculture since 2017, and unofficially since 2001, when she sold her first pig at the county fair and was hooked on this endlessly fascinating industry.

Compost rules everything around me

I spend most of my free time running around the garden with my toddler and terrier. I volunteer as a Master Food Preserver to help educate others to jam, pickle and ferment the incredible California bounty.