
Spokane, Washington Area

Spokane, Washington Area
A passionate connection to our food and those who produce it helps me overcome the industry odds to help develop local, sustainable food systems. Past experience in health care, restaurants, non-profit and real estate development work makes my pursuit a wholistic one, encouraging urban solutions to bolster the strength of our currently fragile rural food roots. From direct farmer-chef purchasing to green roofscapes to farmers' markets to consumer education and community/school gardens, the ultimate fabric of sustainable food production and procurement has a number of different stitches.
Interior Design, tasting and cooking unique foods and wines, snowshoeing, hiking/backpacking, my Rhodesian Ridgebacks Lewis & Clark, knitting, book group, helping friends.
USDA appointment to the National Organic Standards Board, Consumer Representative. 5yr term began Spring 2006 - participate on livestock and certification and compliance committees.
Slow Food USA - Ark-Presidia Committee member, Spokane Convivium leader... www.slowfoodusa.org.
4-5yr member of the Washington Dept. of Agriculture, Small Farms & Direct Marketing Advisory Board.