Oct.
8, 2004
Oct.
8, 2004
Twenty extension faculty members have been selected for the Missouri Extension Leadership Development program. During MELD IV, which begins Oct. 25 and concludes in December 2005, participants will explore experiential and research-based leadership philosophies, and develop and implement a work-integrated innovation project.
MELD IV participants: Cathy Allen, SC consumer and family economics specialist; Meridith Berry, NW information technology specialist; Kathy Bondy, WC youth specialist; Barbara Cunningham, WC business and industry specialist; Nancy Mense, WC youth specialist; Doralee Ely, SC youth specialist; Mick Gilliam, SC ag business specialist; Callie Glascock, extension administrative manager; Matt Herring, EC agronomy/natural resources specialist; Jinny Hopp, SW human development specialist; Jane Hunter, NE human development specialist; Maude Kelly, EC human development specialist; Michelle Klem, NE youth specialist; Todd Lorenz, CM horticulture/agronomy specialist; Rick Mammen, SW regional director; Jim Meyer, NE nutrition specialist; Julie Royse, CM nutrition extension associate; Marcia Shannon, MU associate professor of animal science; Pat Snodgrass, SC housing and environmental design specialist; and Virginia Wilson, EC business and industry specialist.
Welcome to Tricia Freund, EC community development specialist for local food systems, who joined University of Missouri Extension Oct. 4. Freund, who is headquartered in Hillsboro, will lead extension’s local food systems efforts in the St. Louis Metro area.
The local food systems project, funded by a $650,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, will link local producers with consumers through restaurants and supermarkets.
Before coming to MU Extension, Freund was program director of Gateway to Gardening in St. Louis from 2001 to 2004 and a freelance writer for “Small Farms, Big Ideas,” a MU/Missouri Department of Agriculture project from 2002 to 2004. She was an organic farmer in Steelville from 1996 to 2001.
Freund earned a master’s degree in social ecology from Goddard College in 1998 and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Western Kentucky University in 1994.
MU Extension faculty and staff may request a copy of “Farming with Arthritis” developed by Missouri AgrAbility and the Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center. The DVD illustrates techniques for modifying activities and equipment to reduce pain and protect joints, as well as resources for farmers with arthritis and other physically disabling conditions. The disc is available free of charge by contacting Karen Funkenbusch, AgrAbility research associate, at (800) 995-8503.
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