This year's talented
Chefs and Lecturers

Ted Maczka – Lecturer

Ted Maczka is referred to as the Johnny Appleseed of garlic and will bring his garlic wisdom.

Kevin Archer moved from Santa Fe to lead CAS’s Compassionate Cuisine program in 2010, where he provides the knowledge, skills and encouragement people need to incorporate a plant-based diet into their lives.He received his training at the School of Natural Cookery in Boulder, Colorado and the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in Ft. Bragg, California. [...]

Pat Crocker – Chef

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River Song Herbals – Culinary Herbalist is the term Pat Crocker coined to describe her work, her expertise, her passion for food, and her love of herbs. A professional Home Economist (Ryerson Polytechnical University: BAA, Food, Nutrition, Consumer and Family Studies), Pat specializes in creative presentations with a particular focus on herbs and food and [...]

Ric Orlando — Chef

Chefs and Lecturers

A man with a colorful past, Ric’s cultural roots stem from the underground music and art scene from the late 1970s through 1980s in New York, New Haven, and Boston. Orlando gathered his passion for Global flavor eating cheap ethnic urban food while a “starving artist” and developed in his culinary experience at groundbreaking restaurants [...]

David Stern – Lecturer

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David Stern and farm hands in Rose Valley

David Stern has farmed small fruits and vegetables atRose Valley Farm for 35 years.His certified organic farm is between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes inUpstate New York. He has produced garlic for over 30 years and was a co-founder of the Garlic Seed Foundation in 1984. He has been the Director of the Foundation [...]

Michael Rick – Chef

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Michael Rick of Bear Creek Restaurant

Noah Gress – Lecturer

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Noah Gress, vegetable grower, has been practicing organic farming since 1993. Inspired by an organic farmer in western Pennsylvania, Noah began an apprenticeship at Solviva Farm in West Tisbury, Massachusetts. After working with the staff for two years, Noah became farm manager. Although the principle crop at Solviva Farm was salad mix, it was there [...]