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Max Kane
Max Kane is an American entrepreneur, Read morelocal food activist, author, engaging speaker,
natural health advocate, and a leading expert in non-toxic, raw dairy production.
Max is the CEO of three privately held companies and the author of three books on food
and health. Max has over $40M in marketing experience driving revenue to small farms,
and has apprenticed under hundreds of farmers around the United States learning about
food production. Max is the first and only person on Earth to bring affiliate marketing
to local food and believes that true wealth is found in health, relationships, and
spiritual connection. Max buys and sells real estate, studies political philosophy,
eats a raw food animal-based diet, and is a savant at the game Othello.
Abby Rockefeller
Abby Rockefeller established the Foundation for Agricultural Integrity (FAI) Read more
and built the affiliated biodynamic, raw milk dairy in Churchtown, Columbia County, NY. She also helps direct
the work of the 2,600 acre Stone House organic farm in Livingston, NY, and is the co-founder of Hudson Carbon,
a research institute that studies the carbon storage potential of soil managed with regenerative organic
agricultural practices. Abby's longtime commitment to soil health is reflected in her decision to bring the
Swedish Clivus Multrum compost toilet to the United States in 1972 and establish Clivus Multrum, Inc., where
she continues to serve as president of the company. Out of her work with Clivus Multrum, she founded the Resource
Institute for Low Entropy Systems (RILES), a Boston-based nonprofit that works to improve soil and human health
in the U.S. and internationally, with a special focus on ecological sanitation.
Elizabeth Kucinich
Prof. Elizabeth Kucinich works with domestic and international Read more
organizations, businesses and governments to strengthen those who work to bring social, economic, health,
agricultural, energy and ecological systems into balance. She specializes in whole systems thinking and
strengths based organizational development, focusing particularly on the innovative policy and philosophical
underpinnings of regenerative culture and thinking.
Elizabeth is a former European Commission appointee to the SINO-EU Panel on Land and Soil, and former board
policy chair of the Rodale Institute. Elizabeth currently sits on the board of Groundswell International,
dedicated to advancing agroecology, and is an advisor to the wine industry advancing regenerative viticulture.
As a consulting advisor, Elizabeth is presently helping to guide MyLand, a soil health ag tech company working
with some of America’s largest agricultural producers; Alder Fuels, advancing regenerative approaches to
sustainable aviation fuel production, and ‘Wild Foods,’ a new international travel series for PBS focused
on the ecological origins of food, regenerative culture, indigenous knowledge and saving the family farm.
Elizabeth was instrumental in founding the US Congressional Staff Vegetarian Caucus and advanced the
establishment of the Plant Based Foods Association, the Organic Farmers Association, and the Regenerative
Organic Agriculture Certification.
Previous roles include director of Government Affairs for PCRM, focused on the prevention and reversal of
disease through plant-based nutrition, and Policy Director at the Center for Food Safety. Elizabeth Exec
Produced the award-winning documentary ‘GMO OMG’ and was a co-producer of ‘Hot Water’ and ‘Organic Rising’.
Elizabeth is married to former US Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
Joel Salatin
Salatin is the editor of The Stockman Grass Read more
Farmer, granddaddy catalyst for the grass farming movement. He writes the
"Confessions of a Steward" monthly column for Plain Values magazine, the
"Homestead Abundance" column for Homestead Living magazine, and three columns
a month for the e-magazine Manward. He also co-hosts a podcast titled BEYOND LABELS
with co-author of that book Dr. Sina McCullough.
He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the
New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc.,
the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a
farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry
products. When he’s not on the road speaking, he’s at home on the farm, keeping the
callouses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring
visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.
A frequent guest on radio programs and podcasts targeting preppers, homesteaders,
and foodies, Salatin’s practical, can-do solutions tied to passionate soliloquies for
sustainability offer everyone food for thought and plans for action.
Dave Chapman
Dave Chapman runs Long Wind Farm in Vermont Read more
and is the Executive Director of the Real Organic Project. He is a founding member of the Vermont Organic
Farmers. He has been active in the movement to Keep The Soil In Organic. He is proud to be a current member
of the Policy Committee of the Organic Farmers Association. He served on the USDA Hydroponic Task Force.
Dave serves in a Farmer position.
Ben Dobson
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