Joshua Finch is a project leader at Novia UAS who has previous expertise founding and running the first commercial farm in Finland that used permaculture design to create a full agroecosystem (Lillklobb, Espoo). After that experience, Joshua and Novia secured funding for one of Europe’s most northern and Finland’s only dynamic msAFS in 2022. For the past 2,5 years, they have together implemented the majority of the design and began documenting the effects of dynamic msAFS on plant and soil health. Joshua currently heads the Agroforestry in Nyland project, which is first- of-its-kind program bringing farmers together to comprehensively investigate agroforestry practices across the Nyland region, promoting agroforestry amongst agricultural professionals, consultants, and policy makers, all the while continuing to manage the dynamic msAFS pilot in Lill-Nägels. Joshua’s qualifications come through hands-on experience combined with 2,5 years of project management.