Who We Are
Farmers, Advocates, Experts.Mission Statement
Promote the Right to Choose
- For the nation’s family farms to produce and provide foods including those termed value-added, direct to consumers by any legal means.
- For consumers to obtain the foods they choose for themselves and their families from farmers they know.
Educate with Materials & Programs
- For farmers and youth about the economical and nutritional principals of producing high quality foods including teaching effective business or cooperative models and insightful farm stewardship.
- For consumers about criteria for selecting sources of their food and understanding the practices that maintain foods’ nutritional qualities.
Provide Grants
- For support of other organization dedicated to activities (public interest litigration and education) consistent with our mission.
- For support of farmers by providing direct aid to meet the needs created by regulatory interventions through the charitable Compassionate Relef Fund.
Board of Directors
Jim Roberts
Secretary / Chairman
Jim Roberts retired after 42 years in information management, retiring from Hewlett Packard. He has Masters of Science degree from Purdue University in Computer Science. Jim and his wife led the Dayton, Ohio chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) for 6 years. He taught science and computer undergraduate classes, sign language classes for interpreters in church, and now substitutes in local high schools. His hobby has been photography since high school and was the primary photographer in numerous annuals and DVDs.
When he first encountered the impact of raw milk on individual health, he was determined to ensure it should be shared on DVD. After encountering all the negative press on raw milk, he developed TheOtherRawMilk.COM website to clarify the difference between the raw milk developed expressly for human consumption and the raw milk that is selected for industry-supported research.
Sharon Wilson
Treasurer
Sharon is a raw milk advocate, educator and a raw milk producer. Drinking raw goats’ milk from her own goat, she became an advocate for it after seeing its’ benefits to her and her family. As an active member of the Raw Milk Association of Colorado (RMAC), she spent her time educating consumers about raw milk and its’ benefits. When the cow/goat share law in Colorado was passed in 2005, she started her raw milk dairy to provide other families with access to raw goat milk.
Sharon provided her customers with raw goat milk and farm fresh eggs, along with poultry and cows raised on the farm to provide real food for her family and her customers. As a member of RMAC, She has helped create test standards for goats along with product standards and recommended process standards. She has been serving as a board member of RMAC for the last three years.
In 2010, she became an instructor for the Cow-Share College & Goat Share University. She has spent her time educating producers wanting to learn about how to produce clean, safe raw milk. She consults with others wanting to learn more about goats and raw milk production for the last seven years.
Sharon moved in the fall of 2012 to an 11 acre farm in Texas where she is currently producing raw milk and raising goats with her family.
Mandi Vucich
Mandi Vucich is a FNTP, RWP3, and Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition. She is the Founder and CEO of Inside Out Health Company. As a mama of 4, she wanted to help her large young family be as healthy as they could be. She dove head first into health, wellness and nutrition after her own health missteps and she learned the connection to the farmer who grows your food is the most important relationship to have. Mandi is determined to share her knowledge to help others in a fun and easy way. Health Made Easy. She is passionate about connecting her nationwide clients to local farmers to help people transform their lives. Healthy soils = healthy plants and animals= healthy people.
Tim Wightman
Board Member
Tim Wightman is an expert in soil and animal health through balanced mineralization, sustainable farm design and management.
In the last 30 years Tim pioneered CSAs, organic cooperatives, farmers’ markets, local sourced restaurants, consumer access to raw milk. Tim currently builds and manages farms and has built and managed multiple sustainable farm projects. An educator and author promoting economic renewal of local economies through food. Tim consults with B-Corporations, investment, producer and consumer groups and individual farmers throughout North America.
Erin Graham
Board Member
Erin Graham
Leslie Johnson
General Counsel
Leslie S. Johnson became the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation’s General Counsel in January 2012.
Leslie graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1993 and obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Capital University Law School in 1997.
Leslie is experienced in the operation and structure of both non-profit and for-profit organizations, entity selection analysis, business planning, corporate matters, corporate governance and compliance matters, directors, board committee charters, internal controls, disclosure and document retention policies, executive compensation arrangements, buy-sell and close corporation agreements, confidentiality and noncompetition agreements as well as merger and acquisition transactions, including diligence, structure, negotiation and documentation.
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