Caren Kershner
Tom McCracken
Micah Roseberry
Terry Moran
Jerome Osentowski
Director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute and a permaculture designer for thirty years. Through his greenhouse design business Ecosystems Design, he has designed five greenhouses for himself and scores of others for private clients and public schools in the Rockies and beyond. His site hosts an intensively cultivated one acre of indoor and outdoor forest garden and plant nursery, which he uses as a backdrop for intensive permaculture and greenhouse design courses. Among his accomplishments is hosting the longest-running Permaculture Design Course in the world, now at thirty one years running. Jerome has also been instrumental in identifying, conserving, and propagating heritage fruit trees that have survived and borne crops for over a century in the harsh environment of the Roaring Fork Valley.
Cab Baber
Cab has successfully been using EMs (effective microorganisms) as the basis of his farms and business in Hawaii. He has been growing organic fruit, vegetables and flowers since the 70s. He founded Island Herbs Hawaii, LLC, the Hawaii Organic Farmers Association and started the first CSA (community supported agriculture) on the Big Island.
Miguel Santistevan
Miguel Santistevan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Science degree in Ecology from the University of California, Davis. His research interests are in the adaptation of crops and traditional acequia-irrigated and dryland agricultural systems of the Upper Rio Grande and Sangre de Cristo mountains. He maintains an acequia-irrigated Permaculture farm with his wife and daughters in Taos called Sol Feliz where many visitors have participated in educational presentations, tours, and hands-on workshops. His farm is the venue for much of his research and is connected to the Acequia Madre del Sur del Río don Fernando de Taos of which he is a parciante and has served as past Mayordomo and President. Miguel also serves as the founder, President, and Executive Director for the non-profit organization Agriculture Implementation, Research, & Education (www.growfarmers.org).
Miguel is certified in Permaculture and ZERI Design and has directed several youth-in-agriculture programs for different organizations over the years.
He has dozens of publications in local papers like the Green Fire Times and has presented many times about his research and activities to programs such as the Bioneers, the Green Festival, and the International Ethno-Biology Congress.
He has produced a video about food and seed sovereignty in New Mexico (www.youtube.com/GrowFarmers).
He maintains an acequia-irrigated Permaculture farm with his wife and daughters in Taos called Sol Feliz where many visitors have participated in educational presentations, tours, and hands-on workshops.
His farm is the venue for much of his research and is connected to the Acequia Madre del Sur del Río don Fernando de Taos of which he is a parciante and has served as past Mayordomo and President.
Miguel also serves as the founder, President, and Executive Director for the non-profit organization Agriculture Implementation, Research, & Education (www.growfarmers.org).
Miguel has been adjunct faculty at UNM-Taos and Northern New Mexico College and is currently an Acequia Education Coordinator under contract with the NMAA while helping his wife Margaret Garcia develop a local food business called Taos Real Food (www.taosrealfood.com).