![]() devoted her career as a stage director/acting coach to the European theater from 1980 to 2004. He is the current Chair of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Advisory Committee, and an advisor to the President of Vermont Technical College, and a Senior Scholar in Residence. ![]() At the state level he has chaired the working landscape council of the Vermont Council on Rural Development. He has served as chair of the animal and animal products advisory committee on trade to the U.S. Speciality food products in foreign markets. He has had his own company, AgTech, that developed markets for U.S. These have included Executive Director of the USDA Farm Service Agency for Vermont, a member of the Senior Management Team for the former Farm Credit Banks for the Northeast, a staff member of the U.S. He has served in numerous roles in both the private and public sectors in agriculture and food systems. Roger Allbee - Roger Allbee is a former Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets for the State of Vermont. His first book, “Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader,” explores the basic tenets of the American homesteading tradition, and he is completing a second book on rebuilding local food systems in conjunction with the Post Carbon Institute and Chelsea Green Publishing. In addition to his academic interests, he homesteads and farms with his wife Erin and their three children in Pawlet, VT. Philip Ackerman-Leist - Philip Ackerman-Leist is the Director of the Farm & Food Project at Green Mountain College in Poultney, VT and oversees GMC’s new Masters in Sustainable Food Systems. She is also an artist with too little time, but she was able to do a series of pen & ink illustrations for “Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader,” published by Chelsea Green Publishing. Their experiences, so beautifully captured in Ackerman’s book, have much to teach us now and should inspire the next counterculture.”Įrin Ackerman-Leist -Erin Ackerman-Leist homesteads and farms with her husband Philip while homeschooling their three young children. In the words of John de Graaf: “If you’re as old as I am, you’ve probably wondered what happened to all those folks who went back to the land in the sixties and seventies. ![]() Twenty-two years on a back-to-the-Earth farm in Central Vermont and another 15at a permaculture Hermitage in California have shaped her vision. Sherry Ackerman - Author of The Good Life: How to Create a Sustainable and Fulfilling Lifestyle, understands Slow Living. Here are the bios for speakers and organizing committee members for the second annual Slow Living Summit (downtown Brattleboro VT, May 30 – June 1, 2012) ![]()
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