IFOH Board of Directors
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J.B. King, Athens Co. owns and manages King Farm with his wife Charlene. Farrows and finishes hogs which he has processed and delivered to upscale restaurants and Krogers in their Athens store. He also raises meat chickens. J. B. has served as an Athens Co. Farm Bureau Trustee for many years and is on the Athens Co. Fair Board. |
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John Riehm owns and manages with wife Diane, a nutritionist, a diversified farm in Seneca Co. where he grows vegetables, raises a small herd of black angus cattle and a few sheep. He has a successful on-farm store where he markets his products. He sells some of his produce to local grocery stores and donates food to pantries and homeless shelters. John and Diane are both interested in nutrient rich food and work through their farming techniques to achieve a higher measure of food value to their product. |
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Sister Rita Wienken operates a large garden, flock of layiing hens, berry patch, and green houses for the St. Francis Mother House in Tiffin, Seneca Co. She also organizes 50 CSA's (Community Sustained Agriculture) In her spare time she supervises an on-farm market. She co-founded the Earth Literacy Center located on the St. Francis campus which serves as an educational opportunity for young children in agriculture. |
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Mary Holmes co-founded the North Union Farmers Market in Cleveland in 1995. In 2005 she wrote a report for the Farmland Center entitled, “Entrepreneurial Farming: Part of the Plan for Economic Prosperity in Northeast Ohio,” which profiled over 40 farmers in the region who were making a living farming and selling direct. She is a Presidential Fellow at Case Western Reserve University where she teaches a seminar on food, farming, and economic prosperity. She also publishes a blog at:: www.bountyofthewesternreserve.com/wordpress |
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Abbe Turner lives with her husband and three children in Portage Co. where she tends and milks a small herd of goats. She will soon be making cheese in an off-farm facility in Kent, Ohio, and selling her products. Her training is in fund raising and she works full time for the Northeast Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicines and Pharmacy. |
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Dave Beck is the director of the Center for Innovative Food Technology (CIFT) in Toledo, Ohio. He works directly with Marcy Kaptur, Ohio's Representative and member of the Committee on Agriculture. Dave knows more about food production than anyone in Ohio. |
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Sylvia Zimmerman is a retired dairy person living on a large grain farm in Delaware Co., now makes cheese from pastured Jersey cows in her on-farm cheese house. She also has a small flock of laying hens and several Red Devon beef cattle from which she sells eggs and grass-fed beef respectively. She is an ordained minister and a retired school teacher. She serves on the Board of Directors of Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware Co. |
