Abbie Phillips – Vice President

Abbie has committed her life’s work to building healthy places and people as a public health and community development specialist. Abbie is proud of raising two sons in the West Valley of Anaconda with her husband. The boys grew up helping plant the garden, eating freshly picked veggies, fishing,...

Mateja Lund – President

Mateja was raised in northern Utah, and developed an early appreciation for the ways growing and sharing food can strengthen both land and community while gardening with her grandparents in western Montana and Idaho. She believes food is a powerful connector that brings people together across...

Bo Walker – Board Member

Bo is a natural resource professional with an M.S. in Land Resources and Environmental Sciences from Montana State University, a B.S. in Environmental Sciences and Environmental Studies from Rocky Mountain College, and over a decade of experience in sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, and...

Rick Williams – Board Member

Rick Williams and his sons grow veggies and berries in Whitehall. Their farm is named Sugar Beet Row after a street of row houses built back in the day for the town's sugar beet factory workers. Rick sells produce at the Butte and Anaconda Farmers Markets and at Dancing Rainbow Natural Grocery....

Tim Geller – Treasurer

Tim Geller was raised in Arizona and Colorado, often spending summers on his grandparents’ farm in western Nebraska. In his adult life he has raised black angus cattle, sheep and chickens on a very modest scale, and has been an avid gardener. He has 25 years’ work experience in community...