Board Members
David Ames , Jr is a retired banker who has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the past 40 years. As the President of a family land trust in North Easton, Massachusetts, he worked closely with Land For Good to transition the trust's 40 acres of fields from hay to a family-run organic farm. The outcome has been a financial and esthetic success and is greatly appreciated and highly valued by residents of the North Easton area. He is married and has two grown children.
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Clem Clay is the Connecticut River Program Director for The Trust for Public Land. He works with teams in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to permanently protect working farms and forests throughout New England's largest watershed. A Vermonter with degrees in soil science and public policy and a background as a farmer and farmers' market manager, Clem is passionate about food, farming, and maintaining New England's agricultural landscape and heritage. Clem works in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and six children and step-children.
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Jeffrey Cole is professor and chair of the department of anthropology at Connecticut College in New London, CT. Cole regularly teaches on the subjects of food and agriculture and serves as assistant editor for the interdisciplinary journal, Agriculture and Human Values. His current research concerns new and beginning farmers in the northeast, with a focus on Connecticut. He is the author of two books on immigrations issues in Italy and the editor of an encyclopedia on Ethnic groups of Europe.
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Judith Haran is a practicing psychiatrist in Worcester Massachusetts who devotes her free time to causes promoting land conservation, local food, and local agriculture. She helps to run a 5 family community garden on her family's land, and sponsored a church-based garden for the local food pantry. From 2000 to 2008, she was board president of the White Oak Land Conservation Society, a local land trust in Holden, Mass. She volunteered for the Trust for Public Land for several years with a focus on conservation in Worcester County. She is currently exploring the possibility of making farmland available to beginning farmers through the use of private investment.
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Andrew Marshall is the Educational Programs Director at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA). His work focuses on the design and delivery of innovative education and training in sustainable agriculture. He specializes in new farmer development initiatives, including MOFGA's Apprenticeship and Journeyperson Programs. Andrew also teaches sustainable agriculture at Unity and Colby Colleges. He has a background in agroecology and rural sociology, and has earned degrees from Bowdoin College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He lives on a farm in Montville, Maine, where he and his family produce organic vegetables, livestock, and forest products.
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Glen Ohlund grew up in New England, joining TD Bank as Community Development Manager in 2011. Prior to that, Glen served as Northeast New England Loan and Outreach Officer for the Cooperative Fund of New England, where he remains active on the Loan Committee. Additional work on economic, environmental, and social justice issues shaped his dedication to sustainable development. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and a Master's Degree in Community Economic Development from Southern NH University. In addition to cycling and music, Glen is firmly committed to his spring rock crop which eventually makes way for more edible items.
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