Amber Tamm is a farmer, horticulturalist, earth floral designer, and entrepreneur from Brooklyn, New York. She owns and runs her own vegetable and flower farm in Central Vermont (USA) - Dawn Land Farm. 

Amber was studying art education and botany at the College of the Atlantic in Maine when her father murdered her mother, a tragedy that upended her academic path and sent her back to New York City. At just 18, she lost both parents at once — her mother gone and her father in jail — along with her housing, income, and sense of security. It was in the wake of that loss that she found an unexpected lifeline: the earth. As she described it, when she laid her mother's body in the ground, the earth literally became her mother, and it was at that moment she found her voice, her passion, and her future. 

Her expertise comes from her constant hunt to learn more skills from farmers globally pertaining to earth stewardship. Amber holds knowledge in everything from cannabis, to farm education, agroecology, global floral imports, food & farm based mutual aid, agroforestry, food system facilitation and food justice/urban farming. 

In 2022, Amber was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list. She has also spoken at institutions and events including NYU, Feeding America's Anti-Hunger Policy Conference, the Fibershed Symposium, and a Juneteenth celebration with A Growing Culture. In 2020, she launched a fundraising campaign that raised over $120,000 toward securing her own farmland. She also lead the food justice division of chef Dan Barber's Kitchen Farming Project in New York City, which grows food for Black and Brown chefs who prepare meals for low-income communities. 

Amber is perhaps best known for her vision of "A Farm in Central Park" and her constant vision of a changed agricultural system that creates real pathways for not only young farmers but young black and indigenous farmers who lack access to land and resources.

Visit the Dawn Land Farm website to hear and see more of what Amber is currently up to on her land.

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