Notable Resources
This section highlights a curated list of notable resources dedicated to supporting and exploring local food systems in Southwest Montana. From farmers’ markets, local businesses, community-supported agriculture (CSAs), and educational guides on sustainable farming and seasonal eating, each resource offers valuable insights into how local food impacts health, economy, and the environment.
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. [...more...]
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. [...more...]
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. [...more...]
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. [...more...]
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. [...more...]
Introducing the Butte Community Farm
The Butte Community Farm is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to improve access to local food and expand community-wide knowledge about where our food comes from. Our goal is […]