Eliot Coleman (1938-) is an American farmer, author, agricultural researcher and educator, and a proponent of organic farming. His 1989 book, "The New Organic Grower", is considered must-reading for organic farmers and market gardeners. He served for two years as Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), and was an advisor to the US Department of Agriculture during their 1979-80 study, …

Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian agriculture scientist, born August 7, 1925, in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, The second of four sons of a surgeon. His ancestral home is the island village of Monkompu, Alleppey District, Kerala. He is known as "Father of the Green Revolution" in India, for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high yielding varieties of wheat in India.

Lady Eve Balfour (Evelyn Barbara Balfour; 1899-1990) was a British farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at a UK university, graduating from the University of Reading. The daughter of the second Earl of Balfour, she began farming in 1920, in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England. In 1939, with her friend and neighbor Alice Debenham, she launched the Haughley Experiment, …

Adrienne Young is a Nashville, Tennessee-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Her music, created with various incarnations of her band Little Sadie, blends elements of Bluegrass, country, old-time music, and American folk music with a pop sensibility. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Young grew up in a musical family in Clearwater, where she was a member of the band Big White Undies.

Dan Jason is the founder and owner of Salt Spring Seeds, a mail order seed company that specializes in heirloom varieties of vegetables and plants. Popular varieties include garlic, beans, tomatoes, lettuce, and grains. The company, founded in 1988, has stocks of many unusual seeds including over 150 tomato varieties. Dan Jason was born in on July 22, 1946 in Montreal, Quebec. Jason currently lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

Jerome Irving Rodale, known as J. I. Rodale, was one of the first advocates for sustainable agriculture and organic farming in the United States.

Florence Nibart-Devouard (born September 10, 1968) is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation since October 2006, succeeding Jimmy Wales. Devouard was born in Versailles in France. She grew up in Grenoble and has lived in several other French cities, as well as Antwerp in Belgium and in Arizona in the United States. As of 2005, she resides in Clermont-Ferrand in France. She is married to Bertrand Devouard and has three children, William (born 1997), …

Dan James Pantone is an American ecologist and conservationist with a Ph.D. from UC Davis. A former professor at Texas A&M University, Dr. Pantone is a researcher who has published numerous refereed articles on agroecology and sustainable agriculture. In addition, he is a specialist in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) which he has used to help conserve endangered species. Dr.

Examples of my professional writing can be viewed online at www.sandrakaymiller.com; My writing focuses on enterprise-class technologies, primarily in the information security field. To balance the technical side of my life, I am also the owner/operator of Painted Hand Farm in Newburg, PA. I specialize in raising meat goats for the ethnic communities in the central Pennsylvania area and am in the process of developing a micro-creamery for artisan cheese and butter making.

Former Director of Just Food and founder. Most recently Kathy server as Executive Director of the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture. Prior to founding Just Food, she managed education and outreach for the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG). Kathy holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where she specialized in economic and political development.

He joined Pioneer in 1974 as a corn breeder. Mr. Oestreich held positions in Information Management between 1980 and 1990. He became director of Worldwide Parent Seed in 1990. After three years in this role, Mr. Oestreich was named Supply Management director responsible for seed production operations in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific. He was named vice president for the Africa, Middle East, Asia and Pacific business in 1999.