The next people will serve a three-year time period on the Georgia Organics Board.
Akia Lewis (Atlanta) – Akia Lewis is a lover of meals and nature who believes entry to life-sustaining meals is a human proper. Since 2014, she has supported technique, partnerships, and group capability constructing at Georgia Household Connection Partnership, the one statewide community within the nation devoted to the well being and well-being of households and communities. As a staunch believer within the mission and imaginative and prescient of Georgia Organics, Akia has been a volunteer and member for a number of years and has been serving on the group’s program committee.
Shari Martin (Roswell) – Shari Martin, collectively along with her husband Tony Martin, embarked upon farming in 2015, having reclaimed former farmland in downtown Roswell. With the assistance of younger farmers, Martin’s Backyard has grown right into a small city natural farm offering greens by way of CSA memberships and farm stands. Martin’s Backyard can also be dedicated to utilizing the farm to help native charities by way of internet hosting occasions and donating meals regionally. After a decade as a Company Banking Govt with Financial institution of America and Wells Fargo, adopted by one other decade as a Fintech government for New York based mostly corporations, Shari is glad to place down native roots. She is accountable for technique, advertising and marketing and acts as CFO for Martin’s Backyard and is worked up to contribute her small enterprise banking and know-how expertise to Georgia Organics.
Harlan “Tripp” Pomeroy (Americus) – Tripp Pomeroy is the CEO of Cafe Campesino, Inc., a good commerce natural espresso firm, and a board member of Cooperative Coffees, by way of which Cafe Campesino sources all of its espresso. A novel truthful commerce natural inexperienced bean importing cooperative of small to medium-sized North American roasters, Cooperative Coffees is dedicated to deep, long-term partnerships with small-scale espresso farmers and their exporting cooperatives. Since 2004 Tripp has performed an lively function in Cooperative Coffees, together with taking part in quite a few roaster-farmer workshops and main delegations to attach Cafe Campesino prospects straight with the ladies and men who develop their espresso. These connections present a novel and necessary alternative to be taught first-hand about espresso farming and, particularly, the essential function of natural farming practices. Tripp has over twenty years of expertise in worldwide enterprise and commerce and has an MA in Worldwide Growth from The American College’s Faculty of Worldwide Service.
Sed Rowe (Albany) – Sed Rowe is proprietor of Rowe Natural Farm the place he grows peanuts, sunflowers and hemp. He attended Fort Valley State College on a full soccer scholarship and acquired a B.S. in Plant Science with a focus in Horticulture and later acquired an M.S. in Public Well being. After faculty he labored at Southwest Georgia Undertaking, a nonprofit based by civil rights pioneers Charles and Shirley Sherrod. Though concerned in agriculture since he was younger, Sed is a first-generation farmer and began with 10 Licensed Natural acres. He was amongst three farmers to develop Natural peanuts in 2019 and turn into a founding member of the Georgia Natural Peanut Cooperative (GOPA). He at the moment serves on the board of the Nationwide Younger Farmers Coalition.
