November is Native American Heritage month, and ASAN is excited to share with you this interview with Ms. Angela (Angie) Comeaux. Angie is one of ASAN’s board members, founder of Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv Farm (Hummingbird Springs Farm), and a technical assistance specialist with the Intertribal Agriculture Council. *** What draws you to ASAN? Being new [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. It’s always a treat to learn the ways in which our members first found, stumbled upon, or re-discovered ASAN. For Allison and Kirk Creel of Blue Rooster Farms, they rediscovered the organization after [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. What frustrates or challenges Clif about the work he does? He finds it frustrating that people do not get or understand what he does as “The Nurse Farmer”. However, he’s working hard [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. If you attended Graze: Birmingham this year, hopefully you got a chance to listen to the sweet sounds of Meg Ford, and her dad, Doug. Meg is a classically trained violinist, part [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. Chef Thyme Randle, founder of the Underground Cooking Academy, wakes up thinking about art. Not what we typically envision like an image, or sculpture, it’s delicious, healthy food he’s been creating in [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. Next up, farmer Kamilla Nelson, owner and operator of Happy Flappy Farm, in Madison, AL—thanks to her stepson for the catchy name! Kamilla was born in Denmark, however at one week old [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. Marilyn is originally from Alabama -- she grew up in Fairhope where she currently resides. Her parents, who also grew up in Fairhope, were influenced by the Utopian vision of its founders. [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. For those of you who attended our 2017 Food & Farm Forum, you may recall seeing beautiful, enormous bulbs of garlic during our market night, they were quite a hit! Those beauties [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. Jan and Rinske de Jong bid farewell to their native home, the Netherlands to seek new opportunities in the United States. Leaving friends and family in Holland, they were guided by a [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. Born in California and raised in Texas, Kristin Woods made her arrival in the southeast US in 1999 after landing a job as Process Development Scientist for Wayne Farms in Georgia, advising how [...]
