OACC Advisory Board
OACC is guided by an Advisory Board representing stakeholder groups from across Canada. OACC Board members deliberate and make recommendations about policy, strategic directions and sustaining OACC. We are indebted to past and current Board members who selflessly contribute time and help us to pursue our vision.
Groups represented on the Board include:
- organic farmers
- transitional farmers
- food distributors and retailers
- university researchers
- organic extension specialists
- students
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- organic organizations.
The board is designed in such a way that it must include at least one member from Manitoba or Alberta, and each of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Québec and the Atlantic provinces.
Present OACC Advisory Board members
| Claude Berthélémé |
Specialist Organic Development Agriculture and Aquaculture Agricultural Research Station P. O. Box 6000 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H1 Phone: (506) 453-3046 Fax: (506) 453-7978 Email: claude.bertheleme@gnb.ca |
| Richard Donald |
Associate Dean, External Strategic Partnerships Dalhousie University, Faculty of Agriculture PO Box 550 Truro, NS B2N 5E3 Telephone: (902) 893-6036 Email: richard.donald@dal.ca |
| Tandra Fraser |
PhD Candidate Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture PO Box 550 Truro, NS B2N 5E3 Email: tfraser@nsac.ca |
| Andy Hammermeister | Director, Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada Dalhousie University, Faculty of Agriculture PO Box 550 Truro, NS B2N 5E3 Telephone: (902) 893-8037 Email: andrew.hammermeister@dal.ca |
| Chantal Jacobs | Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture Provincial Specialist: Organic Crop Production 2085 Albert St. Regina, SK S4S 0B1 Phone: (306) 798-0945 Email: Chantal.Jacobs@gov.sk.ca |
| Rebecca Kneen | Farmer/Brewer Crannóg Ales / Left Fields 706 Elson Road Sorrento, BC V0E 2W1 Phone: (250) 675-4122 Email: rebecca@crannogales.com Website: www.crannogales.com |
| Maryse Leblanc | Institut de recherche et de développement en agroenvironnement (IRDA) 3300 rue Sicotte P.O. Box 480 Saint-Hyacinthe, QC J2S 7B8 Email: maryse.leblanc@irda.qc.ca |
| Tim Livingstone | Strawberry Hill Farm 7 Strawberry Hill Road Pembroke, NB E7N 1S7 Telephone: (506) 325-2928 Email: strawberryhf@gmail.com Website: http://www.strawberryhillfarm.ca: |
| Derek Lynch | Dalhousie University, Faculty of Agriculture PO Box 550 Truro, NS B2N 5E3 Telephone: (902) 893-7621 Email: derek.lynch@dal.ca |
| Dorothy Marshall | Campbellton Farm P.O. Box 165 Rosalind, AB T0B 3Y0 Phone: (780) 375-3792 Email: camfarm@syban.net |
| Steve Shirtliffe | University of Saskatchewan 3D04-51 Campus Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8 Phone: (306) 966-4959 Email: steve.shirtliffe@usask.ca |
| Randy Whitteker | General Manager Ontario Natural Food Co-op 5685 McLaughlin Road Mississauga, ON L5R 3K5 Telephone: (905) 507-2021 Email: rw@onfc.on.ca Website: www.onfc.ca |
| Dwayne Woolhouse | Crestview Organic Farms Inc. P.O. Box 1568 Assiniboia, Saskatchewan S0H 0B0 Telephone: (306) 642-4096 Fax: (306) 642-4090 Email: dwayne_cofi@hotmail.com |
View a complete listing of past and present OACC Advisory Board members.