After working as a freelance journalist, he co-founded Watershed Media, a nonprofit publishing and communications organization, in 2000 with his long-time collaborator, Roberto Carra. For 20 years, Watershed Media created a leading voice for movements such as green building, single-use packaging bans, conservation-based farming, animal agriculture reform, and more accountable federal food and farm policy. Numerous nonprofit organizations and legislative movements directly stemmed from the 12 seminal books and campaigns produced by Watershed Media. They received many independent book awards, including a 2011 Nautilus Gold Prize for Investigative Journalism for the book CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories, which was translated into Japanese.

A lifelong musician, Dan Imhoff pursued musical studies at the Berklee College of Music (in Boston and Valencia, Spain) and the jazz department of Sonoma State State University. He has released six albums of original music under his Llama Shed Music label: “Fat of the Land,” “Agraria,” “Lucky Stars,”“Peregrino,” “Gratitude” and the forthcoming “Rio Bravo.” Imhoff wrote many of the songs on the duet album “Owl Country,” and the Cahoots album “Philosophy.” He continues to perform and record with outstanding musicians throughout northern California and Europe.

Imhoff divides his time between a remote homestead in northern California and and the urban wonderland of Valencia, Spain. He and his wife, Quincey Tompkins Imhoff, have two children, Gardner and Willa.