Tom Redfern

Director of Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry

Rural Action

9030 Hocking Hills Drive
The Plains, OH 45780

(w) (740) 677-4047

About

Tom Redfern is the Director of Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry. He has been with Rural Action since 2004, working with both the Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Forestry programs during that time. He is a founding member of the Chesterhill Produce Auction (CPA) Advisory Board and has been closely affiliated with the CPA since its inception in 2004. Tom helped originate RA’s concepts of peer to peer, producer compensated education. He has lead the development of several “tool-kits”- printed materials based on producer knowledge and needs, designed to increase production and sales of local foods. Tom is a graduate of Hocking College and Ohio University where he studied Natural Resources Management, Botany, and Environmental Geography.