Eric "Henry" Payne grew up in Alden, NY, and pursued art from a very early age. In his twenties he traveled the country, pursuing art, music and writing while working dead end jobs. The whole starving artist schtick lost its appeal after a while and his growing interest in environmentalism along with the necessity to find a career brought him to his first organic farm job in 2009. His life was almost immediately transformed. In the years following he began going by the name Henry, which is a long story, but essentially it marked that dramatic change in his life and going by a new name felt fitting. He worked on organic farms in Hawaii, New York, Virginia, Oregon, Florida and North Carolina before starting his own market garden, Five Pine Farm, in 2018 with his partner Jackie in Green Mountain, NC which he still operates full time during the growing season. He uses a unique no-till method that involves all hand tools and has a very low impact on the environment. He does the majority of the work himself while his partner Jackie runs a dog training business.