Brian England, PresidentBrian is the manager/owner of Eddyline Restaurant and Brewery and recently moved his family from Socorro, NM to help start Eddyline. Brian brings with him nearly 10 years of experience in the restaurant business along with extensive knowledge in food purchasing and distribution. Brian is currently working with local food producers to supply Eddyline and is devoted to creating a new food economy in the Upper Arkansas Valley.Tom Pokorny, Vice President
Judie Anders, Secretary/Treasurer
Judie has been a voice for sustainable agriculture in Colorado and Oregon for more than three decades. Her passion and expertise is education: as a trainer, mentor and coach, Judie works with young farmers as they start their own farming enterprises. Judie created FarmHands - an innovative education program for kids - to work in harmony with nature and create learning experiences for children's engagement with their local farms. Connecting people back to the land and back to the farmers who grow their food completes the circle of sustainability. Judie joined the Guidestone Board in 2009 and brings a strong voice for local agriculture in the Upper Arkansas River Valley, where agriculture is so much a part of the history and economy of this bioregion.
Derald Brady
Gaye Jenkins
Gaye is a lifetime educator who has lived in the Upper Arkansas Valley since 1981. Born in England, she is a professor for Lesley University's National Program and runs her own educational services business, LingoLynx, LLC, dedicated to 'building human connections using language as the bridge'. She is passionate about empowering youth and adults to live healthy, wholesome lives in concert with each other and the earth and loves life, laughter and the pursuit of learning.
Anne Oliver
Anne and her husband, David, supported the efforts to bring Guidestone Farms to the Upper Arkansas Valley after witnessing the impact Guidestone had upon all who were involved in its program (especially their daughter, Erin) while in Loveland. She grew up on Long Island where her family organic gardens flanked industrial potato farms sprayed by DDT; while raising her family she created backyard gardens year round in different climate zones. She has served on many non-profit boards, is an educator and professional musician but more importantly, an advocate and admirer of the dedication of the young farmers of today.
Erin Schieren
Erin is an entrepreneur in the Upper Arkansas River Valley having developed two successful businesses: Erin’s Organics—a geothermal greenhouse operation producing organic vegetables and herbs, and Antero Hot Springs and Chalk Cliff Hot Springs— year-round cabin rental enterprises in Nathrop, Colorado. As a past intern of Guidestone Farm, Erin has been a champion for the Guidestone Project as it finds its new home in Central Colorado.
Staff
Andrea Earley-Coen, Education Director
David Lynch, Land Link Director
David Lynch has been involved in agriculture for over 30 years and is a key player in developing Colorado’s sustainable agriculture initiative, including the development of the Colorado Organic Producers Association (COPA) and the Colorado Sustainable Agriculture Network (COSAN). David was a recent participant in the Colorado Trust Fellows, a leadership program in Nonprofit Management at Regis University. As current director for Guidestone, he is organizing a new farm project that will be a central feature of a New Urbanism development near Buena Vista, Colorado.
Jennifer Tucker Visitacion, Executive Director