WHO WE ARE

Founders

Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz are the wife and husband team behind seven books on food and farming, including the memoir The Year of the Goat, the guide Living With Goats, two volumes of the Portland, Maine Chef’s Table cookbook, the Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook and Maine Community Cookbook, Volume 2. Margaret is a writer and goat farmer. In addition to being the author of seven books, she is a regular contributor to Taproot Magazine, and has worked in cookbook publishing and as manager of New York’s landmark Magnolia Bakery. She serves on the boards of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) and the New England Farmers Union. Karl is a photographer, journalist, storyteller, and goat farmer. He has worked as a Digital Producer at ABC Television, a Photo Editor at Time Magazine, and as Director of Aurora Photos. He serves on the board of Maine Coast Waldorf School. Since 2005, the couple has lived with their three daughters on Ten Apple Farm, their homestead and agritourism business in southern Maine, where they raise dairy goats, tend a large garden and small orchard, lead goat hikes, teach workshops, and operate a guest house. You can visit them at tenapplefarm.com, or on Instagram @tenapplefarm.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Rachael Cerrotti, Board President; Author, educator, documentary storyteller

Myron Beasley, PhD, Associate Professor in the areas of American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College

Jennifer Bristol, Board Treasurer; Executive Director, Lubec Community Outreach Center

Don Lindgren, Board Secretary; Rabelais Books, antiquarian bookseller & food historian

ADVISORY BOARD

Micaela Blei, PhD, Storyteller, educator, adjunct faculty at SALT/MECA

Hannah Carter, PhD, Dean, UMaine Cooperative Extension

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Executive Director, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance

Julie Greene, MPH, Director of Guiding Stars Licensing Company, LLC, and public health advocate

Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, Faculty Harvard Medical School, President of The Foundation for Art & Healing, author of Project UnLonely: Healing our Crisis of Disconnection

Dustin Rowles, Founder, editor, & writer at Pajiba.com 

Christine Rudalevidge, Food writer, former editor of Edible Maine

Marieke Van Der Steenhoven, Special Collections Education and Engagement Librarian, Bowdoin College