About Us

Midcourse was founded by architect and farmer Caitlin Taylor to apply her design and construction expertise to rebuilding regional food infrastructure. She cooperatively founded and operates Four Root Farm, an organic vegetable and flower farm in Connecticut, and led the Food Systems Design Lab at MASS Design Group since 2017. 

She holds regular academic appointments at Yale School of Architecture, has served as Interim Managing Director at Stone Barns Center, and lectures widely on her award-winning portfolio. Caitlin holds a Master of Architecture from Yale, where she received the Henry Adams Medal, and degree in Biochemistry from Wesleyan University. 

She is a licensed architect and a Holcim Foundation Gold Prize recipient. She is a mom, a bearded iris collector, and an avid book hoarder. Her favorite vegetable by far is the humble radicchio.