His studies were interrupted by Typhoid fever as a result of drinking unclean water.
In 2005 he founded the Save Your Future Association (SYFA), a nonprofit-environmental organization supported by national and international volunteers.
[1][2] Because of his work with SYFA he was invited to study watersheds in the United States and Russia by the Tahoe-Baikal Institute in 2007.
In 2010 he received a scholarship from the United States Department of State, allowing him to graduate from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College with a certificate of Sustainable Organic Farming Practices and Horticulture in 2011.
[3] Farmer Tantoh was elected Ashoka fellow in 2012 [4] and Forest Nation ambassador in 2015.