Board Member at Large:  Alison Charter-Smith

Alison and her husband Tony, own Madrone Coast Farm in Northern California, a 97 acre Certified Organic farm, which sells breeding stock, and grows vegatables, fruit, laying eggs, meat and milk for their local community. They have been raising Large Black hogs for the past 2 years and they sell their pork at local farmer’s markets and through direct customer purchase. They are Animal Welfare Approved and a Certified Wildlife Friendly farm, as well as a member of The Livestock Conservancy. They also raise other heritage breeds of livestock for meat, milk, eggs and fiber from their Oberhasli Dairy goats, Babydoll Southdown sheep, Welsh Harelquin ducks and Delaware chickens.