Koch steeped in Polish culture

Tom Koch says that everyday feels like it’s out of a story book as he runs the Polish Heritage Farm (PHF) with his family in Cedar.

Koch’s farming journey started out in Detroit where he had an urban garden. Then, after having a conversation with an environmental scientist on a flight, Koch knew he had to make a change. The scientist he met explained that urban gardening in Detroit can never be as successful as Koch wanted it to be due to pollution getting into groundwater and soil.

“It really turned us off to the idea. We worked for years and years thinking we were doing a great thing and came to find out there’s no real way to mitigate the pollution in the groundwater,” said Koch.