Jim Dyer
Director
Jim Dyer is the Director of Healthy Community Food Systems and was Project Director of the Southwest Marketing Network for many years. Jim has over 30 years experience working with Native American projects in the Southwest, 20 years in Farm to School work, and nearly 40 years in sustainable agriculture in Colorado. Jim and his wife Pam have raised sheep, poultry, children, and gardens for most of their five decades together.
Tom Bartels
Tom Bartels has worked in various fields of media production for the past 35 years, including broadcast radio, TV, digital video, interactive web media. Most of his projects are related to environmental education, if he can help it. He is an organic gardener who has used a mixture of bio-intensive methods for over 23 years in his home garden in the high desert climate of Southwest Colorado. He shares his knowledge on his website, Grow Food Well, and also co-produces the "Garden Guys” podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/garden-guys/id1668436814
John Rehorn
John Rehorn is an organic hay farmer, writer and philosopher living in the south Animas River Valley. He seeks the Unified Field Theory of spirituality and is convinced that in addition to conscientious environmental activism, the rising of the collective consciousness is essential to human survival on earth. Multiple species will also benefit from humankind waking up and growing up, he believes. He serves on the boards of the Colorado Straw Builders’ Association, The Citizen's Animas Ditch Company and Healthy Community Food Systems of La Plata County, Colorado. He is a certified CMED Archetype Consultant and practices reiki on the vegetables in his garden when no one is watching.
Mike Morris
Mike Morris is a researcher, writer, and educator who spent 25 years promoting sustainable agriculture at the National Center for Appropriate Technology. An advocate for local and regional food systems, organic farming, and water conservation, Mike’s recent work has focused on climate-friendly farming and preparing for a water-scarce future. When he lived in Durango, he served as an advisor to Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Soil Health Program. Mike now lives in Logan, Utah.
Cynthia Dott
bio coming soon.
