Management & Leadership

The FBEA is a growing network of farm-based education professionals.  A group of volunteers provide leadership for the outreach and program activities of FBEA. The FBEA is a project of Shelburne Farms providing administrative, program development, and fundraising support to the project. 

The staff structure of the FBEA is deliberately lean and nimble.  Each FBEA staff member works less than part time on this project to connect and network people in the community of farm-based education.

Brooke Redmond of Radish Road and the Founding Executive Director of the FBEA currently consults to the project as the Director of Communications and Development. T: 617-306-0090, E: brooke@farmbasededucation.org

Mike Roman, Education Manager and Camp Director at Gorman Heritage Farm in Ohio, consults to the program as FBEA Social Media Coordinator.  E: network@farmbasededucation.org.

           FBEA Strategic Planning Meeting
    Pocantico Conference Center, NY, April 2007

Rachel Schneider
General Management Group
Hawthorne Valley Farm
Ghent, New York

Wayne Castonguay
Farm Manager
Appleton Farms

A Farm of the Trustees of Reservations
Ipswich, MA

Matthew Goldfarb
Extension Associate, Cornell Small Farms Program
Cornell University
Fmr. Executive Director, The FARM Institute

Kris Scopnich
Education Manager

Drumlin Farm

A Mass Audubon Sanctuary

Lincoln, MA

Michael Ableman
Farmer, Author, Photographer& Founder of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens
Author of Fields of Plenty
British Columbia, Canada

Rolf Diamant
Superintendent
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historic Park
Woodstock, VT

Daphne Derven
Special Projects Manager

Emeril Lagasse Foundation
New Orleans, LA

Brian Donohue
Professor of American Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
Author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farming and Forestry
in a New England Town and The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord
Weston, MA

Antoine Jacobsohn
Responsable du Potager du Roi Versailles
(Curator of the King's Kitchen Garden)
Versailles, France 

Ben Holmes
Founder & Director
The Farm School
Athol, MA

David Kahn
Executive Director of the N. American Montessori Teachers Association, Program Director for the National Center for Montessori / Adolescent Studies & Founding Program Director the Hershey Montessori Farm School

Burton, OH

Louise Schorn Smith
President
Countryside Consulting
Glenmoore, PA

 Scott Stokoe
Organic Farm Manager
Dartmouth College Organic Farm
Hanover, NH

John H. Vogel Jr.
Adjunct Professor of Business Administration & Associate Faculty Director, Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship
www.dartmouth.edu/dart/groucho/tuck_faculty_and_research.faculty_profile?p_id=ZAZ3E6"> Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH