Gorge Grown Board

	Ann Kramer, Chair Ann Kramer, Ed.S LPC is president of Good 4U Inc., a training, publishing and education service begun in 1992. She maintains a private practice in counseling at Cascade Wellness in Hood River. She is the author of two books, Life Puzzle.. Putting the Pieces Together and Life Puzzle for Teens. Her interest in GGFN and building a regional food system stems from her belief that the foods we eat are a vital part of our health—mental and physical and thus, we should be intimately involved in knowing where our food comes from, how it is grown and who grows it.
	Bruce Bolme, Treasurer Bruce Bolme moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1966. He has training in TQM [Total Quality Management] and NLP [Neuro-linguistic Programming]. As a licensed engineer he has worked as an energy conservation and renewable energy consultant and until his retirement in 2004, for the Corps of Engineers as Chief Engineer at The Dalles - John Day Project. He is Treasurer of the Mid-Columbia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, On the Boards of Washington Gorge Action Programs and Gorge Grown Food Network, active with the Horizons community building project in Klickitat County Washington, and on the steering committee of the Gorge Local Currency Cooperative. Bruce believes our gorge community quickly needs to become more self reliant in local food, local finance and local energy. That is why he supports Gorge Grown, Gorge Local Currency Cooperative [RiverHOURS], supports public power organizations [PUDs] and has converted a vehicle to run on electricity from batteries.
	Brian Hennessy, Secretary Brian Hennessy was born and raised amid the cornfields of Illinois but fell in love with the mountains of Oregon shortly thereafter and never looked back. When he's not planting, foraging, laughing, canning, cooking or tickling his kids, he runs a commercial writing studio with offices in Hood River and Portland, Oregon.
	Brian McCormick, Board Member Brian McCormick eats & farms--organically--with his wife and two boys in Mosier, OR. There they tend winegrapes, tree fruit, a broad garden plot and a small array of livestock, under the name "Idiot's Grace." Otherwise, Brian is a winemaker (for Memaloose) and a board member for Mosier Community School, and broods at length over the future of food production.
	Nicholas Walrod, Board Member Nicholas Walrod is a farmer, husband and father of three small children. With his wife Kristin, they run Dancing Moon Farm, an organic vegetable and flower farm on the West side of Hood River. Dancing Moon Farm started in 2005 and provides organically grown vegetables to local families through a moderately sized CSA, two Hood River Farmers' Markets and to area restaurants. The flowers are purchased locally for events and sold into the Portland area. Nick is focused on constructing a strong, happy and healthy community in which we all thrive and sees farming as a central component to this goal. Nick has a background in the investment world. He is currently on the Board of Governors of the Pacific Northwest College of Arts and is the Chair of their Investment Committee.
	Ben Zimmerman, Board Member Ben Zimmerman is a Hood River valley native who ventured away from the Gorge after high school but eventually returned to establish roots of his own. A founding member of Gorge Grown, Ben first learned farm scale gardening working for Dancing Moon Farm in Hood River and now owns Small i Farm in Snowden, Washington. Small i provides produce to local markets and restaurants, particularly 10-Speed East Coffee House in Mosier that Ben co-owns. Ben believes in a future for the Gorge where most of our food travels less than 30 miles from farm to belly.