Board of Directors

Charlene Doland grew up in a family where whole grain bread and organically grown vegetables were staples. She has practiced organic gardening wherever she has lived, and most recently has become enchanted with regenerative and permaculture principles. Charlene’s back yard is a constant experiment in gaining an understanding of how to best help our earth heal itself and provide sustenance to future generations.

Ramsey McPhillips has been gardening professionally since the age of 11. He gave his first lecture on ‘How to Compost’ at the first Earth Day. Sadly, only his older brother attended the lecture. But he’s never given up, and after receiving an Environmental Studies degree from Bowdoin College, he established a career as a globe-trotting Hortivangelist (garden therapist) and farmer. Ramsey is the founding President Of Zero Waste McMinnville and is working primarily to divert all of McMinnville’s compostable waste shed back into fertile soil.

Brian has been teaching in Yamhill County High Schools for 20 years. Brian teaches Horticulture within the Natural Resources Pathway at McMinnville High School. He believes strongly in the therapeutic and regenerative power of working with plants. He shares this passion daily with his students, especially the ones who don’t believe they have a “green thumb.” When he’s not tending to matters at school, it’s a good bet that you’ll find him in the garden at his family’s Century Farm just outside of McMinnville, which he lovingly shares with his wife and two children.