Focus on Arts and Ecology

Delate is a Professor at Iowa State University with a joint position between the departments of Horticulture and Agronomy, where she is responsible for research, extension and teaching organic agriculture. She was awarded the first faculty position in Organic Agriculture at a land-grant university in the United States in 1997. She has a B.S. in Agronomy and an M.S. in Horticulture from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Ecology from the University of California-Berkeley. She has farmed organically in Iowa, California, Florida and Hawaii. In 2014 she spent her sabbatical studying organic farming in Italy with a few of their 48,000 organic farmers.

Tom Beddard founded Lady Moon Farms in 1988 with his wife Christine on five acres in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Lady Moon Farms was a founding member of Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture with Christine acting as the founding secretary and Tom as the founding President of Pennsylvania Certified Organic. Lady Moon Farms was the first tomato grower to join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in 2009 and it is also the first produce grower to support Whole Foods Market's non-profit, Whole Kids Foundation. Lady Moon Farms is now one of the premiere organic vegetable growers in the country with over 2,400 acres and more than 200 full time employees, providing produce year-round with farms in Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

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