Independent expertise for sustainable agriculture initiatives.
Inspection and consulting services for farms, businesses, certification organizations, and agricultural initiatives.
What Meadowlark does?
Meadowlark works across the intersection of agriculture, certification, and sustainability, providing independent inspection services and practical consulting support.
Whether the work involves evaluating compliance with an established standard or helping an organization prepare for certification, the focus is the same: clear requirements, sound documentation, and systems that work in practice.
Inspections
Independent inspection and audit services for certification organizations and agricultural businesses.
Organic inspections
Non-GMO audits
Regenerative Organic Certified inspections
Ecological Outcome Verification audits
Shadow inspections
Internal audits
Consulting
Practical support for farms, brands, and agricultural businesses navigating certification, compliance, and sustainability requirements.
Certification preparation
Compliance reviews
Audit preparation
Recordkeeping and documentation
Standard interpretation
Corrective action support
WHO MEADOWLARK WORKS WITH
Expertise across the agricultural system.
Meadowlark works with organizations at different points in the agricultural and certification process.
Farms & Producers
Support for operations preparing for certification, strengthening documentation, or navigating compliance requirements.
Agricultural & Food Businesses
Practical guidance for businesses managing certification requirements, supply-chain documentation, internal systems, or audit preparation.
Certification Organizations
Independent inspection and auditing services informed by field experience and a working knowledge of agricultural production.
Agricultural & Sustainability Initiatives
Independent expertise for programs and organizations working at the intersection of agriculture, conservation, certification, and sustainability.
Why Meadowlark
Standards are technical. Applying them is practical.
Certification systems establish important requirements, but understanding a standard is only part of the work.
Effective implementation requires understanding what those requirements look like on a farm, within a business, and throughout an agricultural system.
Meadowlark brings experience from both sides of that process, combining work in inspection and certification with experience in agricultural production, program management, and sustainable agriculture.
The result is an approach that is independent, practical, and grounded in how agriculture actually works.
Built on Experience
Meadowlark is built on more than a decade of experience across sustainable agriculture, certification, inspection, international development, and agricultural programming.
Founder Maclaine Sorden has worked directly with producers and agricultural businesses, conducted inspections and audits, managed agricultural programs, and collaborated with certification organizations, government agencies, universities, and conservation partners in the United States and internationally.
