Participants
Project collaborators at the Glynwood Center for Food and Farming, October 2023.
Project Director: Brigid Meints, Assistant Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University
Collaborating Scientists and Institutions
- Dr. Julie Dawson, Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Dr. Lucia Gutierrez, Associate Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lane Selman, Assistant Professor of Practice, Oregon State University; Director, Culinary Breeding Network
- Dr. Kevin Smith, Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota
- Dr. Mark Sorrells, Professor, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Cornell University
Key Personnel
- Allison Krill-Brown, Academic Personnel, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
- Alyssa Hartman, Artisan Grain Collaborative
- Alice Formiga, Assistant Professor of Practice, eOrganic Project Director, Oregon State University
- Dr. Andrew Ross, Professor of Cereal Chemistry, Oregon State University
- June Russell, Director, Regional Food Programs, Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming
- Jordyn Bunting, Oregon State University Food Innovation Center
Current Graduate Students
- Sydney Baumgardner, Oregon State University
- Gopika Gopinathan, University of Wisconsin Madison
- Siim Sepp, Cornell University
Project Alumni
- Dr. Jorge Dubkovsky, Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis
- Dr. Patrick Hayes, Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University
- John Hawkins, University of Minnesota
- Dr. James Hermes, Associate Professor of Animal Science, Oregon State University
- Julianne Kellogg, Washington State University
- Karl Kunze, Cornell University
- Chris Massman, University of Wisconsin Madison
- Swan Ray, University of Minnesota Extension
- Cristiana Vallejos, Oregon State University
Regional Stakeholder Advisory Committee
- James Henderson, Hummingbird Wholesale
- Ron Silberstein, Admiral Maltings
- Bethany Wallis, NOFA-NY Inc.
- Sandy Boss Febbo, Bang Brewing
- Dallas Glazik, RoseLee Farm
- Charlie Brummer, UC Davis
Funding
This project was funded in 2017 by the NIFA Organic Research and Extension Initiative grant, part of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture: Grant number 2017-51300-26809. In 2020, a second grant, Developing Multi-Use Naked Barley for Organic Systems II was awarded funding: Grant number 2020-51300-32179. In 2023, a third grant was awarded funding: Grant number 2023-51300-40964.