Ashley Armstrong is a first-generation farmer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Nourish Food Club, a private food club working to build an alternative food system centered around small regenerative farms.

Ashley earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and originally planned to become a professor. But once she began to see the problems within the modern food system, she couldn’t unsee them, and decided she wanted to be part of building something different.

Today, Ashley runs her own regenerative farm in Southwest Michigan and works with a growing network of small regenerative farms. Together, these farms provide members with a wide variety of farm-fresh foods: old-fashioned foods with modern convenience.

Through this journey, Ashley and her team have faced significant regulatory battles, including government-ordered food destruction that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

Ashley is passionate about food freedom and is currently working with Michigan lawmakers to advance legislation expanding food freedom. Her work is focused on building a different model for food and farming: more small farms, stronger connections between farmers and consumers, and greater choice in how our food is raised and produced.

Dale Batty is a 5th generation Utah farmer. He has lived and worked on his farm in Vernal for over 60 years. When his father managed the farm they did what all of the neighbors did; they made hay and raised cows. However, Dale is an avid reader and loves to learn, especially about farming. He learned about management intensive grazing and began to implement it over 20 years ago. The yield on the pastures increased significantly. Since then, he has continued to apply things he has learned, shaking up everything his family has ever done and making the neighbors wonder if he lost his marbles. He tore down the old pig pens and started letting the pigs run the pastures with the cattle. He found and bought a flock of hair sheep and turned them loose with the cows and pigs. And then he introduced chickens. Not the 10 or 12 he always kept for eggs. Hundreds of chickens. He raised chickens for meat and chickens for eggs. And he moved those through the pastures as well. Dale turned the Battys from "respectable cattle men into Chicken farmers." And it paid off in huge ways.
His wife, three of his six children, a daughter-in-law, and four grandchildren actively work the farm. They raise around 2,000 meat chickens, and 300 turkeys each year, along with about 1200 laying hens, 20 pigs, 50 cows, 30 sheep and 10 llamas.
Dale has helped write legislation and has fought for small farms and homesteads and their right to produce and sell direct to consumers. He loves to educate future generations to be successful farmers, and providing them with all the years' of knowledge he wishes he had when he was younger and had more energy.

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Lloyd Nelson has been practicing the art of Biodynamic (BD) Agriculture for over twenty years. He is a BD preparation maker, builder, artist, farmer, arborist, BD educator & consultant. He is co-founder of Biodynamic Source - a Colorado based non-profit specializing in high potency BD preparations - and he owns and operates a Biodynamic spray, fertilizer and consultation service. He has worked with small and large scale farms, vineyards, and orchards to transition to sustainable Biodynamic land management and Demeter BD Certification.

Symbria spent a lifetime working in the nonprofit sector. After her daughter started an organic farm, she and her late-husband saw the possibilities and left their employment to work full-time building a sustainable farm. Their focus was to make local food accessible and to create a community educated about healthy food and responsible sources. As her experience grew, so did her vision, and she saw the need for an organized effort in promoting and protecting farmers, farms, and local food economies. She and her daughter started another adventure, while continuing the first, and co-founded Red Acre Center in the midst of farming. She says she has never worked a day in her life. "I always find myself engaged in a cause and loving what I do!" The mother of four and grandmother of nine, she loves, to walk, read, farm, eat good food and be anxiously engaged in a good cause.

Charlie is the arborist for Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, an ISA Certified Arborist, and former farm hand at B.U.G. Farms. He is passionate about growing strong, beautiful trees that benefit the surrounding community. Before moving to Utah, Charlie was a professional arborist in Minnesota, mentored at Four Seasons Tree Service for 7 years, organized workshops and conferences with the Minnesota Society of Arboriculture and was a teaching assistant at Hennepin Technical College. Charlie’s favorite trees are oak trees.​

Danielle is an arborist and vegetable farmer, and the owner of Ringleberry Farm. She is in her first year as a small business owner, selling veggies primarily through a CSA. She is passionate about the connection points between trees and farms, and about utilizing the benefits trees provide, specifically to Utahns.

Jill grew up on a large farm and ranch. She gained a deep connection and respect for the land at an early age. She knew that one day she wanted a farm of her own, but it would be a small farm where she planted the seeds by hand and nourished the soil with nutrients and compost produced on the farm. She would grow and harvest the crops for someone she knew personally.

For the past 42 years she has lived her childhood dream living on a beautiful, sustainable farm and raised her family close to the bounties nature provides. She has grown food for her neighbors, a CSA, and attended Farmer's Markets in Northern and Southern Utah.

Jill Simkins is also an artist who works in many mediums. She is especially gifted at her nature and garden journals, where her close observation of the land and the growing seasons comes to life on the page.