Andrew H. Smith

Dr. Andrew “Drew” Smith is part of the team at Rodale Institute using an ORA Grant to develop a regenerative organic research and training institute in India.

Drew is responsible for administrating, facilitating, and implementing farm operations and research activities at the Rodale Institute main campus and six other production and research campuses.

Drew earned a Bachelor of Science in agronomy at Cornell University and a Master of Science in entomology at the University of Maryland.

After two years in the Peace Corps assisting a cooperative of small-scale vegetable farmers in Guatemala and ten years farming organically full-time in Pennsylvania, Smith attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he earned his Ph.D. in environmental science with a concentration in molecular and population ecology.

In 2015, Drew started at Rodale Institute as the Research Director of the Vegetable Systems Trial. Drew was named Chief Scientist of Rodale Institute in 2018, and Chief Operating Officer in 2019. He owns a 140-acre organic farm with his wife where they raise Shetland sheep, grow fiber and fruit crops, and manage a Seed-to-Share garden and provide educational programming.