First Nominations Submitted For the National Organic Standards Board 1990

DECEMBER 31, 1990

From the Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association:

ChristineJohnson:Own/Operate an Organic Farm Chesapeake Center Farm, Marion Station, MD
Walter Ehrhardt Own/Operate an Organic Farm Ehrhardt Organic Farm, Knoxville, MD
Roger Blobaum: Public Interest CSPI, Washington, DC
Michael Heller: Environmental Protection & Resource Conservation Claggett Farm (Chesapeake Bay Foundation)

From the Mississippi Organic Growers Association:

Thomas Finlay Dana: Own/Operate an Organic Farm Lumerton, MS

From OCIA:

Bart Hall-Beyer: Own/Operate an Organic Farm Consulting Agronomist, Scotstown, Quebec
Thomas Harding: Certifying Agent Agri-systems Int., Wind Gap, PA
Ron Gargasz: Own/Operate an Organic Farm
John Clough: Own/Operate an Organic Handling Operation Garden Spot
Britt Eustis: Own/Operate an Organic Handling Operation Eden Foods
Mark Squire: Retailer
Steve Boese: Own/Operate an Organic Handling Operation Specialty Grains
Margaret Scoles: Certifying Agent Inspector OCIA
Mel Coleman Sr: Own/Operate an Organic Farm Coleman Natural Meats, Colorado

From Organic Food Alliance:

Thomas Harding: Certifying Agent Agri-Systems, Int. Wind Gap, PA
Mel Coleman Sr: Own/Operate an Organic Farm Coleman Natural Meats, Colorado
Fred Kirschenmann: Own/Operate an Organic Farm Kischenmann Family Farm, Windsor, ND
Mr. Lundberg:Own/Operate an Organic Farm Lundberg Family Rice, CA
Mark Retzloff: Retailer Alfalfa’s, Colorado
Myron Cooper: Own/Operate an Organic Handling Operation Westbrae, California
Bill Knudson: Own/Operate an Organic Handling Operation R.W. Knudson Family, California
Gene Kahn: Own/Operate an Organic Handling Operation Cascadian Farm, Washington

From the Organic Farmers Association Council:

Own/Operate an Organic Farm:
David Stem, NY
Len Johnson, WA Kay Thornley, CA Woody Deryckx, WA
Eero Ruuttilo, NH
Mel Coleman, Sr., CO
Fred Kirschenmann, ND
Dennis Holbrook, TX
Bay Laxson, TX
Teresa Mathews, AR

Own/Operate an Organic Handling Operation
Gene Kahn Cascadian Farm, Washington
Leonard Dankner Northeast Cooperatives, Massachusetts
Pat Leonard Cowboy Produce
Boyd Foster Arrowhead Mills

Environmental Protection and Resource Conservation:
David Granatstein, WA (Dryland conservation)
Jim Knutsen CA (Nutri-Clean)

Public Interest:
Terry Gips, National Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
Roger Blobaum, CSPI, Washington, DC
Bill Francis
Gail Black
Hilary Straycr, 1A

Expertise in Toxicology, Ecology or Biochemistry:
Dr. Daniel Dindal, Syracuse University, NY
Dana Tracy, OR
Dr. Eric Sidcman, ME
Dr. Whitney Crenshaw, Colorado Stac Univ., CO

Certifying:
Agent Harry McCormick, OR
Brent Wiseman. TX
Miles McEvoy. WA