Program Partners

By using applied research, engaging in advocacy, providing educational resources, and addressing policy implications, the Xerces Society endeavors to make meaningful long-term conservation a reality. For the past decade, Xerces’ Pollinator Program has partnered with land managers, farmers, researchers and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) across the US to implement and evaluate habitat targeted at enhancing pollinator populations and bolstering crop production.

Oregon Tilth is a leading nonprofit certifier, serving over 3,000 farms and processors across the US and Mexico. Since 1974, Oregon Tilth’s mission is to make our food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable. It does this by focusing on organic certification, education, conservation, public policy and marketplace sustainability.

For more than 80 years, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has helped farmers, ranchers and forest landowners make investments in their agricultural operations and local communities that improve the quality of our air, water and soil. NRCS provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers to help them plan and implement a variety of conservation practices. Learn more by visiting nrcs.usda.gov.
Advisory Board

Pesticide Program Director

Co-owner and Operator, Grinnell Heritage Farm

Food Industry Consultant, Organic Consumer & Industry Veteran

Executive Director, Xerces Society

Extension Specialist and Professor, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University

Vilicus Farms

Pollinator Program Co-Director

Senior Manager, Natural and Organic Sourcing General Mills, Inc.

Extension Specialist and Associate Professor of Insect Ecology, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University

Senior Vice President, Agriculture Capital

Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Almond Industry Specialist
Administrative Team

Bee Better Certified Technical Specialist
Production Standards Development Team

Conservation Biocontrol Specialist