Bios

• Charlene Murdock

  • • Background: International specialty food business, Inaugural Terra Madre delegate

• • Project: Nana Cardoon, Learning kitchen and garden in forest grove; youth groups and adult classes

  • Affiliations: Adelante Mujeres, Dairy Creek Food Web, Community Garden, Artisanal food producers across Oregon

  • EdenAcres interest: Board development, Friendmaking, Education programming: Farm to Table

• Charlie Graham

• • Background: 30 years upper elementary school teacher, Founding teacher FG Community School,

  • Projects: Roots& Shoots after school club, Organizer of Oregon Roots&Shoots Festivals including visits by Jane Goodall

  • Affiliations: FG school district, Lewis and Clark, Pacific Colleges of Ed, Hyla Woods Community Forest, Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, Jackson Bottom, etc

  • EdenAcres interest: Education programming: The Natural World

• Erin Morgan

• • Background: Travel related to education and sustainability Out and About teacher FG Community School,

  • Projects:

  • Affiliations: Community School, Adelante Mujeres

  • EdenAcres interest: Education programming: The Natural World

• Fallon Harris

• • Background: Center for a Sustainable Society, B Street

  • Projects: Roots and Shoots, Centro STEAM curriculum development, site support, lead teacher

  • Affiliations: Centro, Roots and Shoots, Community School

  • EdenAcres interest: Education Programming, Organizational Development, Steering Committee

• Marcia Wilcox

• • Background: Center for a Sustainable Society, B Street, Leadership conferences, civic engagement

  • Projects: Centro design/build, site support

  • Affiliations: Lions Club

  • EdenAcres interest: Youth Work Program CSA, site development,

• Rod Endacott

• • Background:farming-20 yrs. mostly small scale commercial, always organic: orchard, market garden, dairy, chickens and cattle ranching. Landscaper 24 yrs.

  • Projects:Attend Marylhurst University in fall/winter; senior yr. in Interdisciplinary Studies/Media for Change.

  • Affiliations:Owner, operator of Enchant Landscapes; Permaculture designer for 100 Mile Community Place Garden;Marylhurst Sustainability Council.

  • EdenAcres interest:media for grants writing, friend making, general communications.

• Terry O'Day

• • Background:

  • Projects:

  • Affiliations: Pacific University, Cascade Permaculture Institute,

  • EdenAcres interest:

  • John Saltveit

  • Background: Educator, in schools and in gardening projects.Projects: I have a permaculture food forest at home, I teach grafting and sustainable gardening.

  • I was the founder and leader of the gardening club at Tom McCall in Forest Grove for about 10 years.

  • Affiliations: Home Orchard Society, permies.com (largest permaculture site in the world)

  • EdenAcres interest: Advisory. I may come in and teach a class or two from time to time.

Charlie Graham

Charlie is a highly experienced environmental educator with connections to Clean Water Services, Jackson Bottom, Tualatin River Keepers, Hyla Woods, and more. He's published and presented numerous times on place-based learning and was a founding teacher of the Forest Grove Community School. He is a guest teacher in Centro Cultural's STEAM-ECT summer camp program and will serve as EdenAcre's liaison to Tom McCall Upper Elementary in the 6th Grade Outdoors! initiative.

Erin Morgan

Erin is the out and about coordinator at the Community School. In that capacity, she is responsible for providing an out-of-classroom experience for every student in the school each week. She is a frequent user of Fernhill, B Street, Jackson Bottom, and other outdoor sites in the vicinity of Forest Grove. Erin will serve as a curriculum coordinator for the Centro STEAM camp and will help develop curriculum for the 6th grade Outdoors! program.

Charlene Murdock and Richard White

Born in to families of farmers, Charlene Murdock and Richard White have devoted their lives to providing family, friends and community with home-grown vegetables, fruits and, mostly recently, grains. In the 1980s Charlene founded her own specialty food brokerage where she met another aspiring specialty foods broker, Richard White. Together they formed, and for more than 25 years, managed Murdock and White, the Pacific Northwest's premier specialty food brokerage. Their work brought them in to direct contact with small, artisanal food producers, often as they too were founding and growing their businesses.

Many friendships were formed and, as a result, not only food information was shared but "taste memories", the connection of taste to the food or recipe prepared. A wide variety of foods grown at the Nana Cardoon farm were often brought to staff trainings and customer meetings, typically as multi-course luncheons to feature the products being presented. They are active members of Oregon's Friends of Family Farmers, Forest Grove Grange and founding members of Dairy Creek Community Food Web.

"We think of our meals as the binding elements of culture and our connection, through hands in the dirt, to agrarian cultures the world over”.

Marcia Wilcox

Marcia Wilcox has been a Facilities Manager and Volunteer Leader at a non-profit Nature Conservancy, and has background in several other fields such as Construction Project Management, Publishing and Law Enforcement Software. In addition, she has managed a number of small businesses as well as owning two of her own.

Her personal interests have led her to teach many adult workshops focusing on self-sufficiency and sustainability. She is now on the brink of earning her Bachelor's in Leadership for Sustainable Communities.

Marcia feels that within the next 10 years, through community cooperation and wise stewardship, our local area can supply at least 30% of its own needs.