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.
Projects
| ONC22-111 | Value Adding Culinary Chestnut Seconds Through the Development of a Marketable Fine Flour |
| LNC16-384 | Creating an Educational and Economic Value Chain for Specialty Dairy Products in Appalachian Ohio |
| ENC12-134 | Beyond Season Extension: High Tunnels for Season Creation and Economic, Community, and Environmental Sustainability |
| ENC05-085 | Creating Capacity to Confront Invasive Plants as Barriers to Economic Productivity and Environmental Sustainability |