05/19/2026
If you've been to one of our events, you've likely met one or a few of us, but here we all are in one place at one time! Last week Taproots Working Group, Board of Directors, and staff gathered to celebrate the progress of Taproots and our amazing Idaho Gives campaign.
What do all of these groups do?
The Working Group plays and advising role to the incubator farm. They’ve been meeting for over a year to help envision and sculpt this thing from the ground up!
The Board of Directors helps us with our strategy and fiduciary responsibilities.
Our staff is on the ground doing the work!
Front row: Lisa Wilson (Office Administrator), Casey O’Leary (Executive Director), and Ben Brock (Working Group). Back row: Shana Moore (Board Member), Janie Burns (Board President), Joe Redden (Working Group), Elaine Kazakoff (Board Treasurer), Genny Gerke (Assistant Program Coordinator), Lyndsey Mulherin (Working Group), and McKenna Schmitt (Director of Development and Community Outreach).
This project is supported through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). TOPP is a program of the USDA Organic Transition Initiative and is administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP). Know a farm interested in transitioning to organic? Reach out to Hanna, an Organic Transition Specialist, at [email protected].