Chair

• Cumberland County

Jenn is the Director of the Dickinson College Farm near Carlisle. After attending Providence College, she joined the Peace Corps where she developed her interest in sustainable agriculture while living in West Africa and working with farmers.

Vice Chair

• Allegheny County

In Nov. 2000, Jamie Moore began his career with Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, a company that has 76 restaurants, 46 healthcare accounts and 44 college and business dining accounts throughout PA, WV, OH, MD, MI and NY. As the manager of purchasing for their on-site brands division he emphasized the need to develop and maintain innovative programs that would separate Eat’n Park Hospitality Group from their competitors.

Treasurer

• Chester County

Louise Schorn Smith, CPA, is President of Countryside Consulting, Inc., a unique consulting firm that provides accounting services to small businesses and nonprofit organizations in Southeastern Pennsylvania. She is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Management Accountant and has an MBA degree.

Executive Committee Member

• Juniata County

Roy is co-owner and operator of Blue Rooster Farm, a grass based livestock farm in southern Juniata County. Together with his wife and daughters, Roy raises and direct markets beef, lamb, and pork.

• Adams County

Sara farms full-time with her family, who owns and operates Oyler's Organic Farms. She is the 6th generation to farm the same land. Sara and her family are committed to producing nutrient dense, certified organic food.

• Perry County

Mike and his wife, Terra, own and operate Spiral Path Farm, a 200-acre vegetable farm in Perry County. Mike began farming in 1974, moved to his current location in 1978 and operated a farrow-to-finish hog operation and grew hay and grain crops for 15 years.

• Northampton County

Jerry is a soil and crop consultant for livestock farms and ranches. After attending North Carolina State University, Jerry operated a cow/calf operation in West Virginia and was the marketing director at the National Farmers Organization in the Northeast.

• Centre County

Eric is an instructor and plant science program director for Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center in Petersburg, PA and has degrees in Economic Botany, Horticulture and Forest Resources. He provides landscape and forest management leadership at Shaver’s Creek and teaches courses for the Penn State School of Forest Resources on woody and herbaceous plant identification, non-native invasive plants and agroforestry (riparian forest buffers, windbreaks, forest farming).

• Cumberland County

Melanie grew up milking Jersey cows on her parents' farm. She returned to the farm after graduating from Va Tech, and helped to milk while working off-farm. Her first PASA conference introduced her to cheesemaking and in 2001, she began making cheese and farming full-time.

• Butler County

T. Lyle was born and raised on his farm in western Pennsylvania and learned over 30 years ago the importance of value-added products. At that time, he and his wife, Betty, set up an organic flour mill to process their own grains and those of local producers in their area. Theirs was one of the first western Pennsylvania farms to be certified organic.

• Westmoreland County

John, along with his wife Sukey Jamison started farming 30 years ago and today raise and slaughter several thousand natural, grass-fed lambs annually. They market their lamb to home cooks and some of the finest chefs and restaurants in the world.

• Chester County

Sue is a first generation dairy farmer milking 80 cows with her family at Birchrun Hills Farm. Sue makes raw milk cheeses from her dairy herd and direct markets the cheese through farmers’ markets, restaurants and specialty cheese shops. Sue is committed to working with farmers to promote educational opportunities in sustainability, marketing and adding value to their agricultural products.

• Somerset County

Rita Resick has been farming since buying a Somerset County farm in 1998. She and her business partners transitioned from growing chip potatoes to table potatoes, green beans and sweet onions. They branded their new products, and began working with grocery and wholesale markets.

• Monroe County

Heidi Secord, along with her husband, owns and operates the 48-acre Josie Porter Farm. Using biodynamic growing methods the farm supports a 100-member CSA on land leased from a local municipality.

At-Large Board Member

• Montgomery County

Ted LeBow is a serial entrepreneur. His first business venture was a farm in Idaho where in 1980, he bought his first tractor, signed his first loan with the Production Credit Association, and started waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the rain ruining his hay crop.

At-Large Board Member

• Centre County

Dave is an active member of PASA participating actively through presentations, workshops and facilitated discussions at recent annual meetings and summer ecologically-based pest management workshops. Dave has been on the faculty at Penn State since 2001 and before that held a similar position at the University of Nebraska.

At-Large Board Member

• Maryland

As the farm manager of Great Kids Farm, Greg Strella uses agriculture to bring learning to life for young people. Great Kids Farm provides opportunities for Baltimore City school students to understand and participate in every aspect of food preparation – from seed to fork – and prepares them to lead 21st century sustainability efforts.