Advisory Councils help set the standards for CNG certification, and carefully consider when improvements might be made to CNG’s allowed and prohibited practices, products and operations. We are grateful to these practitioners for sharing their expertise.
Members of each council can be found below.
Apiary Advisory Council
Jennifer Berry
Honey Pond Farm
University of Georgia Bee Lab, Research
Comer, Georgia
Pam Fisher
Beekeepers Guild of SE Virginia, founder
Bees Knees Apiaries
Chesapeake, Virginia
Buddy Marterre
Dr. Buddy’s Bees
Instigator and lead author of CNG Apiary Standards
EAS Master Beekeeper, NCSBA Master Beekeeper
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Jon Zawislak
University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension, Apiculture
EAS Master Beekeeper
Arkansas Beekeepers Association, ex officio board member
Little Rock, Arkansas
Aquaponics Advisory Council
Cecilia (Cissy) Bowman
Owner/Consultant, Center Valley Organics
Advisory Council member, Farmed Here
President, Hoosier Organic Marketing Education
Clayton, Indiana
Gina Cavaliero
Co-founder, Aquaponics Association (retired)
Co-founder and former Manager, Green Acre Aquaponics
Brooksville, Florida
Rebecca Nelson
Co-founder and Co-ower, Nelson and Pade
Author, Aquaponic Food Production
Adjunct Instructor, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
Montello, Wisconsin
John Pade
Co-founder and Co-ower, Nelson and Pade
Adjunct Instructor, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
Montello, Wisconsin
Tawnya Sawyer
Director of Education and Business Development, Colorado Aquaponics
Denver, Colorado
Mushroom Advisory Council
Tradd Cotter
Author, Organic Mushroom Cultivation and Mycoremediation
Director of Cultivation, Research & Product Development, Mushroom Mountain LLC
Easley, South Carolina
Steve Gabriel
Author, Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests
Farmer, Wellspring Forest Farm
Former Specialty Mushrooms & Agroforestry Specialist, Cornell Small Farms Program
Ithaca, New York
Dr. Peter Hartel
Professor Emeritus, Soil Microbiology, University of Georgia, UGAgarden
Founder, UGA certificate program in organic agriculture
Athens, Georgia
Mark Jones
CEO (Cohabitating Ecological Organism), Sharondale Mushroom Farm
Cismont, Virginia
Nicholas Laskovski
Farmer/Instructor, Get Love Ski (was Dana Forest Farm)
NE SARE Grant Recipient (2012, 2014) for Organic Shiitake Cultivation and Market Research
Roxbury, Vermont
John C. Michelotti
Co-owner, Catskill Fungi
Member, Amazon Mycorenewal Project
Big Indian, New York