Arty Mangan, Bioneers’ Food and Farming Director, joined the organization in 1998 as Project Manager for the Restorative Development Initiative, which produced “Wisdom at the End of Hoe” ecological agricultural workshops and collaborated with John Mohawk’s Iroquois White Corn Project and African American farmers in Mississippi and Alabama. A former President of the board of the Ecological Farming Association, Arty has worked with farmers and agriculture since 1978, first as a partner in Live Juice, a fresh, local, organic apple juice company in Santa Cruz, CA, and later with Odwalla where he was in charge of fruit sourcing from farmers in the US, Mexico and Costa Rica. www.bioneers.org
