Board of Directors & Staff

Our co-op is run by our member farmers and community members. Just like the food in our CSA boxes, our leadership team is 100% local!

Sarah Valentine

Board of Directors President

Farmer at Valentine Gardens

About Sarah

Sarah Valentine and her family run Valentine Gardens in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They focus on small scale growing on their five acre property. Their small suburban farm includes an orchard, berries, vegetables, native landscaping, as well as a small flock of chickens and a small herd of goats. Sarah also teaches Agriculture at Red Smith Middle School and leads Outdoor Learning opportunities for elementary students at Red Smith in Early Childhood through 5th grade.

Mark and his wife Sarah continue to learn skills to be self-sufficient every year and share what they grow and learn with others. With a background in education, they host a variety of camps and workshops for kids and adults, sharing what they know about sustainable farming practices. The Valentines enjoy continuing to learn new things about farming and making new connections with others who share their passion for agriculture.

Sarah and Mark are involved with Wild Ones, Brown County Beekeepers Association, WWOOF, WI Farmers Union, Monarch Watch, Xerces Society, NWTC Sustainable Agriculture program, and NRCS.

Janet Vraney

Board of Directors Vice President

Community Member

About Janet

Janet started volunteering with SLO Farmers Co-op in 2021 after reading Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and feeling inspired to support the local food movement. From the start, she was impressed by SLO’s farmers — their ethics, their passion, and the incredible quality of their products. She deeply respects SLO's commitment to providing the community with food that is free from GMOs and pesticides while maintaining sustainable farming practices and responsible animal stewardship. Since then, Janet has been a dedicated subscriber to the meat and veggie shares and eventually joined the board of directors to further support SLO's mission.

Beyond her involvement with local food systems, Janet works as a school library media specialist, where she shares her passion for literacy every day. In her free time, Janet loves reading, traveling, music, and spending time outdoors. Most importantly, she cherish time with my family and friends.

Scott Rosenberg

Board of Directors Member, Secretary, and Customer Service Representative

Farmer at Full Circle Community Farm

About Scott

Scott Rosenberg is a co-owner and co-manager of Full Circle Community Farm with Heather Toman and Andrew Adamski. He began by renting land from Rick Adamski and Val Dantoin and learned about SLO through them. Scott was working a corporate job before transitioning to farming. Now he oversees the farm's work force and day-to-day field operations to keep things running smoothly.

In addition to ensuring seeds are planted, weeds are pulled, and the harvests are cleaned, packed, and stored properly, Scott also serves as the Customer Service Representative for SLO. If you need assistance with your CSA share, he's here to help!

Scott gets joy from growing food for his community. It's his goal to continually learn more about the natural world so he can be a good steward to the land, making the farm an oasis for native birds, insects, and animals. He's glad to know there are consumers out there that care about his farming practices and want to eat the foods that Full Circle Community Farm produces.

Amanda Chu sitting by a lake with mountains in the background

Amanda "Bear" Chu

Board of Directors Treasurer

Community Member

About Bear

Amanda "Bear" Chu serves as the Treasurer of SLO Farmers Co-op and is the current Procurement Director at the Real Food Challenge, where they lead strategies to shift institutional purchasing toward values-aligned farms and food businesses. With SLO, they provide strategic guidance, financial oversight, and product development support that strengthen opportunities for member farms.

Previously, Bear founded the NEW Food Forum, convening hundreds of stakeholders to create Northeast Wisconsin’s first Regional Food Action Plan. They also owned and operated Whole Harvest LLC, a diversified farm business, and continue to consult on farm-to-institution projects. Passionate about equity and resilient food systems, Bear works to expand markets for local farms values-based farms and food producers.

Every day, Bear is driven by the importance of the story behind the food our community eats. When people understand where their food comes from and the values behind it, they can choose to build a food system that nourishes both people and the planet, rather than one that extracts from natural resources and concentrates wealth in the hands of a few. Bear is excited to see SLO grow in ways that strengthen our local economy while honoring the land, our communities, and the farmers who sustain them!

Mary Fox

Board of Directors Member

Farmer at Foxtail Produce

Val Dantoin smiling in blue and green patterned shirt and green scarf

Valerie Dantoin

Board of Directors Member

Retired Farmer

About Valerie

Valerie has been a farmer for 36 years after marrying Rick and joining the 260 acre family dairy farm. They converted to organic 100% grassfed beef farming in 2014. Valerie had the privilege of teaching organic and sustainable farming's associate degree program at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay for 17 years, having just retired in 2017.

Care for the earth and future generations was built into the food she helped raise and grow at Full Circle Farm.

Valerie co-founded SLO to help bring farm products from their farm and others to your kitchen table. She has been a member and director of GrassWorks, inc and New Leaf Foods.

Val looks forward to the day when local farm foods are embraced and eaten widely by our community and farmers are compensated in a fair manner.

Laurie Pilgram

Board of Directors Member

Farmer at Full Circle Community Farm

About Laurie

Laurie is the owner and manager of the cattle at Full Circle Community Farm. She also helps out with their pastured pork operation.

After growing up on a dairy farm, she studied cows in college (Dairy Science at UW-Madison). She's worked for a feed mill co-op as a livestock nutritionist and a dairy co-op as an on-farm milk quality specialist. In fact, she's worked for cooperatives for most of her career, so being a producer contributing to a co-op just makes sense.

After being burned out from working with large commercial dairies, Laurie felt the itch to be a business owner and work directly with cows. She recalled her time spent a decade ago working on grass-based dairy farms in New Zealand, and knew she wanted to have cows in their natural environment doing natural cow things. After an internet rabbit hole led her to an organization called Renewing the Countryside, one of their farmland access navigators connected her with the Adamski family. Laurie has worked with them for three years with the intention of buying into the business.

“I am committed to Full Circle Community Farm's core values of caring for the land, soil, livestock, wildlife, and people. As our business continues to evolve as the next generation takes over, the commitment to maintaining the organic certification, and our beef being 100% grassfed and finished remains the same. I look forward to moving the business into the future while providing wholesome food to our local communities.”

Shannon Anderson

Board of Directors Member and Administrative Support

Farmer at Sleepy Squirrel

About Shannon

Shannon began as an intern with Full Circle Community Farm after graduating from NWTC’s Sustainable Agriculture program. She became acquainted with founding and active members of SLO through these connections. On her farm, Sleepy Squirrel Farm, Shannon is motivated to benefit our community and protect natural habitats. Shannon contributes her passions as a member of the Wisconsin Farmers Union, Wisconsin Women in Conservation, and Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.

She's a firm believer that the food we grow and raise improves quality of life. Shannon is excited to see how SLO Farmers Co-op continues to succeed because of how our local farmers and small businesses really work together toward the common goal of staying small enough to make a big impact.

Austin Pethan

Board of Directors Member

Farmer at Prairie Folk Farm

About Austin

“Stewardship” is Austin’s overarching idea for all things farm. The idea of land stewardship first started simmering while working on the burnt out and abused prairies of southern Wisconsin, where he worked with torch and chainsaw to restore vigor and diversity to land that had seen better days. He now takes that ethos to the family farm, striving to make it a better piece of ground.

In addition to farming, Austin runs a grazing and pasture consulting service, GrazeRight Solutions LLC.

Heather Toman

General Manager

Farmer at Full Circle Community Farm

About Heather

Heather Toman is a co-owner of Full Circle Community Farm with her partner Andrew Adamski and Scott Rosenberg. She and Andrew met in college and Heather moved to the Adamski family farm after graduating with a master's degree in biology in 2017. They began growing organic vegetables, pastured pigs, and pastured laying hens for eggs. Full Circle Community Farm started selling to SLO right away, as Andrew's parents were founding members of our Co-op. Heather became the bookkeeper and her role has grown in scope from there. Heather is also currently the chapter president of the regional chapter of Wisconsin Farmers Union. She also fosters the relationship between SLO and WELLO - a non-profit that is highly invested in promoting local food connections to those in need in the community.

Her main goal with farming is to contribute to the health and wellness of the land, animals, and community. She's a firm believer that eating locally grown food is one of the greatest things anyone can do for the planet and their health. Heather's excited about continuing to build the community connections in the Green Bay and Appleton local food participants. She sees the strength and resiliency that is resulting from these connections, the amazing creative thinking that is building community projects, and the outreach that is making local food a movement to get plugged into.