EARLY INTEREST

You could say the land has always had a hold on me. I grew up in the middle of the agricultural community and left the rural countryside of Northern Ireland with my family. Next stop? Australia, the famous land down under! I joined the team at creation care, a company that specializes in large-scale environmental projects. It wasn’t easy; i had to start at the bottom of the stack. I started washing the work vehicles and handling the irrigation at the plant nursery, which taught me the basics and let me work my way up to implementing large-scale land restoration projects.
Youth gives you energy; i was a bright-eyed teenager in 2014, eager to help any way that i could. Trucks caked with mud? No problem! Tree planting in the australian mallee region? Sign me up! I loved every minute, because it meant being on the land, doing what i loved. Protecting the environment is incredibly important to me. After i finished high school, i got a job offer to continue working on environmental projects.
As you can see, my interest in the agricultural community goes back many years.

Canadian interests

I had a very compelling reason to come to canada, leaving behind my job in the australian countryside: keila biddington, who gave me the immense honor of becoming my wife! We met in australia at a christian conference, and a little spark of interest turned into a flame! Plenty stood between us being together in canada: the expense, the distance, the pandemic, and on and on. As covid-19 swept across the world, all we could do was wait. But i took that year and tried to be as productive as possible: environmental conservation, land restoration, weed control, dung beetle breeding, and plenty of hard work on the land. In january 2021, i finally got to come to canada, full mask and face shield attached. All of the effort of the past year was absolutely worth it.

A few short months later, we got engaged and then married. You can check out our wedding video here.

A few weeks after our wedding, i received a phone call from rené samson, ceo of samson.digital. He was seeking to open a branch of his maritime based online marketing company in moncton, new brunswick. With guidance from rené, we discussed how online marketing was a powerful and underused tool which could be utilized to support business growth in both urban centres and rural areas alike. Samson.digital is careful in the clients it accepts, and the moncton branch is no different: we seek to partner with businesses and individuals from a multiplicity of backgrounds, who can truly benefit from the services we provide. We are always looking for motivated clients who value the power of marketing, and we are genuinely excited when we find them. Personally, i am glad to know that the tools we offer to help businesses increase their public exposure and professional reputation can also be used for great benefit by the agricultural community. I would like to encourage rural populations to step up to the competitive marketplace in which urban businesses thrive.