Meet The Board
The Iowa Food Cooperative is comprised of producer and consumer members. These individuals contribute $50 to become members. Many of them also volunteer their time to support the Cooperative. Volunteers have been busy remodeling the Iowa Food Cooperative space at Merle Hay Mall, working on the web site, attending planning meetings and more. We are especially thankful to our board members and founding members.
Pete, Ben, David, Kelly, Stacy, Carolyn, Amy, Jason.
The Iowa Food Cooperative is led by a eight person board with four producer members and four consumer members.
The Iowa Food Cooperative producer board members are: Pete Woltz, Ben Saunders, Stacy Hartmann and Jason Jones.
The Iowa Food Cooperative consumer board members are David Couch, Kelly Tagtow, Carolyn Ross, and Amy Miller.
Founding Members
We would also like to recognize our founding members in their support of the launch of the Cooperative
- Linda and David Gobberdiel, West Des Moines
- Carolyn and Andy Ross, Ogden
- Ken and Jeanne Henrichsen, Winterset
- Gary and Penny Huber, Maxwell
- Linda Appelgate, Des Moines
- The Homestead Living and Learning Center, Pleasant Hill
- Robb Origer and Rachel Bandy, Des Moines
- Char Kimball, Johnston
- LaVon and Craig Griffieon, Ankeny
- Brian and Julie Donaghy, West Des Moines
- Angie and Kelly Tagtow, Elkhart
- Rebecca and David Sidney, Runnells
- CoryAnne Harrigan and Patricia Calkins, Indianola
- Julie and Chris Nelson, Johnston
- Aaron and Nichole Heley Lehman, Polk City
- Beth Henning, Des Moines
- Tom and Mary Cory, Elkhart
- Wheatsfield Cooperative, Ames
- Brandon and Anne Burnett, Norwalk
- David Couch and Lori Schirmer, West Des Moines
- Michael Coyne and Peggy Russell, Des Moines
Other Support
The Iowa Food Cooperative would still be an idea on the drawing board if it wasn’t for the work of Practical Farmers of Iowa and the funding support of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Blooming Prairie Foundation.
