About Us 

Farmer+Smith's managing director is Paul Bauernschmidt ("bear-n-schmidt").  He is a native Delawarean and a graduate of Brandywine High School. 

Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Delaware and a Master of Science in Public Administration from Wilmington University. 

He has nearly a decade of public relations and marketing experience as the former director of the Delaware Heritage Commission, an agency within the Department of State that specialized in community outreach, grant funding, publications, commemorations and public programming.  

Paul is a member of the Newark Morning Rotary Club and chair of the Lunchtime Networking Group sponsored by the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce.  

Paul created Farmer+Smith P.R. in 2007.

Our Business

...is your business.  We work for intiatives that are good and will endure.  We look forward to working with you. 

Our clients have included:

• Architectural firms
  
• Construction companies 
• Contractors 
• Home builders
  
• Municipal governments 
• Museums
• Non-Profit organizations
  
• Publishers 
• State Agencies 
• Sole Proprietor businesses
  

We take pride in our flexible approach to business, and this is reflected in the way that we work. Although we prefer to forge long term partnerships with clients on an exclusively retained basis, we also accept short term projects and offer interim support.

Call 302-450-8314 or email paul@farmersmith.com

Paul has written articles in numerous publications notably "Business Bridge", "Fully, Freely & Entirely", "Cornerstone", and others. 

He is the author of the book Delaware's Parks and Gardens: A History through Photographs Old and New.  It is available through Cedar Tree Books. 

Paul served as the project director and contributing author of the City of Newark's 250th anniversary history book - Histories of Newark: 1758-2008.  

Paul's spent the summer of 2008 working on his next book, America's Pastime in the First State: Little League Baseball in Delaware. 

He lives in Newark with his family.