National Sustainable Agriculture Oral History Archive
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This Archive was created by Ron Kroese, Garden Avenue Associates and Senior Fellow in the Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the University of Minnesota. Ron's story of creating the archive is told in Land Stewardship Project's Ear to the Ground Podcast #223: Sustainable Ag Policy's Deep Roots |
Individual Interviews: |
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Jill AuburnFormer National Program Leader, USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture | |
Bob BerglandFormer U.S. Secretary of Agriculture | |
Wendell BerryAmerican Novelist, Poet, and Farmer | |
Roger BlobaumOrganic Farming & Food Policy Advocate, Educator | |
George BoodyScience & Special Projects Leader, Land Stewardship Project | |
Don BustosFarmer; Co-Founder, National Immigrant Farming Initiative | |
Denny CaneffSustainable Farming, Healthy Rivers Advocate | |
Kate ClancyFood Systems Consultant, Visiting Scholar at the Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health | |
Ken CookPresident and co-founder, Environmental Working Group | |
Craig CoxVice President, Environmental Working Group | |
Bob GrayWashington DC Rep, National Center for Appropriate Technology | |
Tom Harkin and Ferd HoefnerHarkin, Former Iowa Senator; Hoefner, Founder and Federal Policy Advocate, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition | |
Chuck HassebrookFormer Executive Director, Center for Rural Affairs | |
Elizabeth HendersonPioneering CSA Farmer and Organic Farming Activist | |
Ferd HoefnerFounder and Federal Policy Advocate, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition | |
Wes JacksonPresident Emeritus, The Land Institute | |
Loni Kemp and | |
Margaret KromePolicy Director, Michael Fields Agricultural Institute | |
Al KurkiProgram Specialist, National Center for Appropriate Technology | |
Mark LipsonResearch Associate in Organic Agriculture Policy, University of California, Santa Cruz | |
Amy LittleFormer Policy Director, NE Sustainable Agriculture Working Group | |
Kathleen MerriganDirector of Sustainability, George Washington University | |
Lorette PiccianoExecutive Director, Rural Coalition | |
Jim Riddle and Joyce FordSoutheast Minnesota Farmers, Organic Farming & Food Advocates | |
![]() | Mark RitchieFormer President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
Ricardo SalvadorDirector, Food & Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists | |
Mark SchultzExecutive Director, Land Stewardship Project | |
Bob ScowcroftFormer Executive Director of Organic Farming Research Foundation | |
Bob Scowcroft and Mark LipsonFormer Executive Director of Organic Farming Research Foundation (Scowcroft); and Research Associate in Organic Agriculture Policy, University of California, Santa Cruz (Lipson) | |
Roundtable Session 1 | |
Roundtable Session 2 | |
Roundtable Session 3 | |
Shirley SherrodFamily Farm and Civil Rights Advocate | |
Michael SlighFarmer and Program Director - RAFI-USA | |
Sister Mary TachenyEducator, Sustainable Farming Advocate, School Sisters of Notre Dame | |
Ron and Maria Vakulskas RosmannSustainable Agriculture Policy Advocates and Organic Farmers | |
Lydia VillanuevaFounder-Director Casa del Llano | |
Bob WarrickFormer Agriculture Chair, Sierra Club | |
Mark WinneCo-Founder, Community Food Security Coalition | |
Garth YoungbergFormer Executive Director, Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture |