KS 7 Conversations with Arty Mangan from Bioneers
Arty Mangan, Food Farming Director for Bioneers has worked with farmers and agriculture since 1978, when he became a partner in Live Juice, a fresh, local, organic apple juice company in Santa Cruz.
In 1986 he joined Odwalla, where he was instrumental in developing production systems, product lines and fruit supply, helping grow sales from $1 million in 1986 to $55 million in 1997. He held the position of production manager, and later was in charge of fruit sourcing.
He joined the Bioneers in 1998 as the Project Manager for the Restorative Development Initiative, which produced “Wisdom at the End of Hoe” ecological agricultural workshops, collaborated with John Mohawk and the Iroquois White Corn Project and worked with The Federation of Southern Cooperatives and African American farmers in Mississippi and Alabama. In 2005 he became a board member for the Ecological Farming Association, a nonprofit educational organization that promotes ecologically sound agriculture. Their special events bring people together from all over the world to share ideas and experiences in producing healthful food from a healthy earth. When you support the Eco-Farm Association, you are supporting the growing of abundant food, protecting natural resources, preserving diversity, honoring rural life and work, and inspiring better farming.
Bioneers was conceived to conduct programs in the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, traditional farming practices, and environmental restoration. Our vision of environment encompasses the natural landscape, cultivated landscape, biodiversity, cultural diversity, watersheds, community economics, and spirituality. Bioneers seeks to unite nature, culture and spirit in an Earth-honoring vision, and create economic models founded in social justice. Visit Bioneers at www.bioneers.org
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John Mohawk and the Iroquois White Corn Project
