Kenneth Mulder GMC Farm Manager & Research Associate B.A., Mathematics, Kalamazoo College M.S., Mathematics, University of Oregon Ph.D., Ecological Economics, University of Vermont Kenneth Mulder is a farmer and a scientist. He has been active as a farmer and agricultural educator for ten years with experience in vegetable production and draft animal farming. He is also an ecological economist specializing in energy analysis and ecological modeling. He enjoys farming with students, training and driving oxen, and grazing in the vegetable patch. He lives across from Cerridwen Farm with his wife, Emily, and four kids—seven year-old Obadiah, six year-old Zekie, four year-old Mamie Beth and two year-old Thaddeus. Listen to a National Public Radio story featuring Kenneth's GMC oxen class. Read an article co-authored by Kenneth, titled "The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection," published in Ambio. Eleanor Tison Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies A.B., Anthropology; A.B. History, Dartmouth College M.A., Cultural Anthropology; A.B.D., Environmental Anthropology, University of Georgia Eleanor Tison is a crucial member of the Green Mountain College Farm & Food Project. She is a resource for a variety of topics including food preservation, agricultural biodiversity, seed saving, and food systems in the Northeast and beyond. And with a background in anthropology, Eleanor’s input has been vital to a variety of local and sustainable food initiatives. During her Ph.D. candidacy, Eleanor was involved in a project saving African American seeds on an island off the Georgian coast—a bridge between anthropology and food issues that has become one of her academic specialties. Will Allen Master Farmer Will Allen grew up on a small farm in southern California and served in the Marine Corps between the Korean and Vietnam wars. He received a PhD in Anthropology (focused on Peruvian tropical forest agriculture) and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, before being fired and sentenced to a year in jail for civil rights and antiwar activism. He returned to farming and farm labor fulltime in 1972 and has been farming organically ever since in Oregon, California, and Vermont, where he now co-manages Cedar Circle Farm. He founded the Sustainable Cotton Project in 1991 and served as its executive director for thirteen years. He is currently a co-chair of Farms Not Arms, is a policy advisory board member of the Organic Consumers Association, and serves on the board of Rural Vermont. Read more about Allen's book The War on Bugs.
