The Forever Green Partnership has organized two major collaborative projects that engage public, private, and advocacy sectors to add value to the extensive research and development and commercialization work being done on Continuous Living Cover crops.

• The Steering Council brings thought and action leaders in public, private, and advocacy sectors together to resource, build and evaluate scalable Continuous Living Cover systems that will enhance economic, environmental and social aspects of agriculture. Members include:

  • Ryan Anderson, Founder & Principal, Solving for Pattern

  • Whitney Clark, Executive Director, Friends of the Mississippi River

  • Trevor Russell*, Water Program Director, Friends of the Mississippi River

  • Naima Dhore, Owner, Naima's Farm and Founder, Somali-American Farmers Association

  • Sam Grant, Executive Director, MN350 and Rainbow Research

  • Gabe Gusmini, President & CEO, The Plant Pathways Company

  • Eric Jackson, Board Chair, Bionutrient Food Association

  • Nick Jordan, Professor and Co-founder, Forever Green Initiative, University of Minnesota

  • Don Wyse, Professor and Co-founder, Forever Green Initiative, University of Minnesota

  • Stu Lourey, Government Relations Director, Minnesota Farmers Union

  • Jerry Lynch, Principal, Worthwhile Ventures

  • Erin Meier, Director, Green Lands Blue Waters

  • Aaron Reser*, Associate Director, Green Lands Blue Waters

  • Moses Momanyi, Owner, Dawn 2 Dusk Farm and Founder, Kilimo Minnesota

  • Steve Morse, Executive Director, Minnesota Environmental Partnership

  • Thom Peterson, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Agriculture

  • Margaret Wagner, Section Manager, Minnesota Department of Agriculture

  • Latashia Redhouse, American Indian Foods Program Director, Intertribal Agriculture Council

  • Anna Wasescha, President, West Central Initiative
    (* Alternates)

• The Learning and Experimentation Network brings professionals from a variety of on-the-ground projects together to learn from experience and share what works in efforts to commercialize and expand Continuous Living Cover agriculture.

The Forever Green Partnership is strongly committed to enhancing all aspects of sustainability, including equity and inclusion.

We seek to advance Continuous Living Cover in a way that distributes economic and environmental benefits fairly and provides opportunities to all farmers.

We support collaborative projects that engage public, private, and advocacy sectors with farmers and rural communities in shared efforts to commercialize new forms of Continuous Living Cover with equity and inclusion, while also working to address related challenges such as land access and economic risks assumed by farmers.