Growing up in North Carolina in an active family Stephen spent most of his developmental days outside exploring his grandmother's farm, the woods, streams, and lakes of this bio-diversified Southern landscape.

After school in the Rocky Mountains, it was a five-month solo motorcycle adventure through South America that piqued Stephen’s interest in farming, grape growing, and wine-making. This ultimately led him to get his hands dirty working for boutique wineries and farms in Napa, California.

By 2012, Stephen found his next job back in Colorado to work as the Director of Business Development for the first Organic distillery in the US and first Biodynamic farm in Colorado. Then, experiencing a year on a 90,000-acre cattle ranch opened Stephen's eyes to large scale holistic land management, animal husbandry, and agricultural and economic diversification. This passion for restorative agricultural endeavors lead Stephen into a successful agrarian photography career shooting for brands such as Pendleton, Red Wing, Toyota, Stetson, Epic Bar, Long Meadow Ranch, Tecovas and BMW to name a few.

For more the last 13 years Stephen has been working on and around Biodynamic and regenerative farms, ranches and agricultural based CBG brands using storytelling and living systems thinking to help evolve our relationship to how we do business. He has built Onda, a regenerative herbal and body care brand, from the ground up, pioneering regenerative supply chains, disruptive business models, re-introducing ancient healing styles to modern consumers. All while living in a wall tent off grid and slowly, in his spare time, homesteading on bare land.