David Blume

CEO/Farmer

Whiskey Hill Farm/Blume Distillation

371 Calabasas Road
Watsonville, CA 95076

(w) (831) 722-4455

About

David Blume: C.E.O - Blume Industries, Owner/Operator - Whiskey Hill Farms
Regenerative Ag expert, Biofuels pioneer, author and global food waste repurposing consultant.

Early in his career David Blume worked on experimental energy projects, with NASA, as well as Mother Earth News. In 1980 he founded and ran one of the first successful Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) operations in the country producing food for 430 families and generating an average $100,000 per acre.

A successful business leader and entrepreneur, Blume wrote the Amazon.com critically acclaimed and Ag tech best-selling book, Alcohol Can Be A Gas!

Over the last 25 years, Blume has been featured in thousands of interviews on National TV, and Public Radio radio programs including NPR’s Science Friday with host Ira Flatow. Blume recently was invited by Sir Richard Branson to his annual Tech Meets Capital Necker Island retreat, he presented at the US Pvillion lst year at the United Nations’ Cop26 Global Forum in Glasgow Scottland and he over the last 15 years as a regular expert commentator on Genesis Communications Network, (GCN, the Premiere Talk Radio Syndicator), Clear Channel, Farm Talk Radio, Illinois Farm Bureau radio, and he is a regular guest commentator on Coast-to-Coast radio with celebrated host George Noory (a program that reaches more than 2 million people in the US alone).

Blume received the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA) "Truth in Agricultural Journalism" award and has keynoted conferences for the ACGA along with the National Farmers Union, the National Grange, OLADE (the Renewable Energy Organization for Caribbean, Central and South American nations and Mexico) and has been a plenary speaker at the World BIO Ag conference.