Speaker Category: Main Speakers

Glenn Roberts founded Anson Mills in 1998 in Charleston, South Carolina, to rematriate lost foods of the 18th and 19th century Southern Pantry. Today, Anson Mills grows and produces artisan organic landrace grain, legume…

Askegaard Organic Farm is a 6th generation family farm operated by Mark Askegaard & his daughter, Beth McConnon. The farm is located south of Moorhead, MN and encompasses approximately 980 tillable acres. The farm…

Patrick has been at Baker’s Field Flour and Bread for the last five and a half years. He started out with zero experience and acquired all of his baking and milling knowledge at Baker’s…

Chris MacLeod is co-owner of Laune Bread, a bakery in South Minneapolis focused on supporting local farmers & millers, whole grains, & sourdough bread. Our breads & pastries blend west coast American and German…

Mala Ganiger is R&D lead for Minn-Dak Growers Ltd., located in Grand Forks, ND. This company specializes in buckwheat and mustard milling in the food-based industry. Her responsibilities revolve around buckwheat breeding projects, focusing…

Alyssa Walters is the R&D Research Chef at the premier flour-milling and ingredient company Ardent Mills. In this role, Alyssa creates innovative prototypes and recipes, develops customer solutions with both Traditional Flour and Emerging…

Angie Echols is local to the area, residing in Monticello, MN. She is the Food Security & Regulatory Compliance Manager at Bay State Milling Company, a food ingredient manufacturing company, with 9 US and…

Andrew Heyn owns Elmore Mountain Bread with his wife, Blair Marvin in Northern Vermont.  They bake wood-fired breads using stone ground local grain.  Andrew designed and built his own mill for their bakery, and…

A lineal descendant of the Wahpeton-Sisseton and Mdewakanton Dakota tribes and lifetime Minnesota native, Dana Thompson has worked for nearly a decade within the food sovereignty movement. As co-owner and chief operating officer of…