Our Mission:

To increase awareness about locally grown organics, sustainable living, alternative energy, permaculture, slow foods and the art of simple pleasures through festivities, community events and inexpensive fun.


Board of Directors

Lidia Marchioni

Executive Director
Instigator, initiator and organizer.

Deepa Singh

Treasurer
Deepa Singh has ten years of IT experience that ranges from developing consumer internet to enterprise software application but her real passion lies in sustainable farming techniques. Coming from a tradition with hundreds of years of history in non-industrial farming, she is a big advocate of eating local and maintaining all sorts of bio-diversity. An avid traveller, she likes hiking in outdoors and reading about different cultures. She holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and MS in Computer Science from RPI,NY

Mark Lenhart

Secretary
Creative thinking, business opportunities, leg work.

Robert Wieckowski

Assembly Member, 20th District. Member of California Federation of Certified Farmers' Markets; Served on City of Fremont Planning Commission; Chair of Tri-City Ecology Center; served as City of Fremont Recreation Commissioner; Attorney at Law in Fremont, CA

Amy Sutor

Member of the Backyard Gardeners in East Palo Alto through Collective Roots, Master Gardener Intern of San Mateo and San Francisco Counties, Member of the California Rare Fruit Growers, and a mom of two.

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