Please meet the Real Organic Project Standards Board members and read our bios below. We last met to finalize our current standards in late February of 2019, just before our annual Symposium at Dartmouth College.
Francis Thicke
Francis Thicke runs Radiance Dairy in Iowa. It is a 736 acre grass-based dairy farm. Francis worked for the USDA Read more…
Michael Besconsan
Michael Besconsan is founder of the Besconsan Group. Michael has 40 years of hands-on experience within the natural/organic food and grocery sector… Read more…
Cameron Molberg
Cameron Molberg is on a mission to increase the infrastructure needed to improve and grow rural economic Read more…
Jay Feldman
Jay Feldman is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Beyond Pesticides. He has worked tirelessly to deal with the problems Read more…
Will Brinton
Will Brinton founded his soil lab Woods End Laboratory in 1974 while working on Marjorie Spock’s biodynamic farm in Sullivan Maine and… Read more…
Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson is the founder of Pete’s Greens. He is widely respected for his innovative farming. He organized the Read More…
Kate Duesterberg
Kate Duesterberg is a co-manager of the Cedar Circle Farm. Cedar Circle is a non-profit that runs as an educational Read more…
Jim Durst
The Durst family has been farming in the Yolo county area of California since the late 1800's. While the previous three generations focused on large-scale commodity crop farming… Read more…
Linley Dixon
Linley Dixon owns a vegetable farm (marketing through a CSA, farm to school, and at farmers markets) in Durango, Colorado Read More…
Jennifer Taylor
Jennifer Taylor and her partner run Lola’s Organic Farm on 32 acres of land once owned by her grandmother Read more