Peter Brooks lives and works on his Christmas tree farm in Malta. Previously, he worked with Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor and portfolio manager for over 30 years. In an earlier life, he worked as a teaching naturalist, landscape designer, and then forest resources planner with National Audubon, Connecticut Audubon, Flat Rock Brook, Adirondack Park Agency, and NYS Department of Environmental Conservation.
Peter has served on various nonprofit, municipal, professional, and church boards, and helped found Saratoga PLAN. He studied and earned various degrees at Stanford, Cornell, Penn, and Wharton.
He has been blessed with three children, their spouses, and six grandchildren. All of them now live in Saratoga County, and each helps out at the farm in his or her own way.