Ian Hertzmark

Ian Yosef Hertzmark is a husband, father, son, brother, friend and traditional kosher butcher. He and his family operate Migrash Farm on 32 acres in Baltimore County, MD, growing grains and legumes, market vegetables, and rare fruits. Under the new banner of Patapsco Grist and Seed, Ian cleans, processes, and mills thousands of bushels of small grains annually from his farm and a network of Chesapeake growers, producing stone ground flours, cold rolled flakes, food-grade kernels and farm seed. He continues to provide custom kosher meat processing services under USDA inspection for private entities and national companies alike. Ian was born and raised in Denver, CO and is formally educated as a wildlife biologist and rangeland ecologist.