Mrill Ingram: The central focus of Mrill's research and educational efforts has been to contribute to a better understanding of how cultural attitudes, policies, technologies and other ways of knowing shape our relationships with nature. For the last five years she has worked at the Environmental Resources Center at UW-Madison. Her projects there include a study of the use of urban Integrated Pest Management by professional landscapers, and the development of information materials for agricultural Environmental Management Systems, as well as this analysis of how different agricultural policies influence farmers in their perceptions and management of their natural environment. She has also worked at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson coordinating exhibits and research and helped produced an environmental science and education ideabook for the Bottle Biology project at UW-Madison. For her dissertation work in geography she researched the origin and circulation of different ideas about soil fertility that are central to organic farming and other alternative farming practices. Her master's thesis research focused on the ethnobotany of two species of agave plant in central highland Ecuador, and the intricate web of cultural and economic relationships binding together the plants, the people and the land. She is currently editor of the journal Ecological Restoration.


Karl Hakanson: Karl currently serves as the Certification Coordinator for Protected Harvest, a non-profit organization that independently certifies farmers' use of stringent environmental growing standards. Previously Karl was Outreach Specialist at the Environmental Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked on sustainable agriculture research and education projects. Karl spent eleven years working with farmers and agriculturists as the Natural Resource Educator for the UW Cooperative Extension Service in Sauk County, Wisconsin, where he directed education and outreach programs for a variety of water quality and natural resource programs. He holds a B.S. in Agriculture from the UW-River Falls and a M.S. in Land Resources from Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison.
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