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JUST IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING WHO WE ARE . . . |
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Mary-Howell & Klaas Martens |
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are organic farmers, with about
1400 acres of organic corn, soybeans, small
grains (wheat, spelt, barley, oats, triticale),
field peas, winter peas, dark red kidney beans,
edamame soybeans and other things too. They
have been farming organically since 1993. They
also raise organic heifers, pigs, chickens, and
most importantly, 3 children – Peter, Elizabeth
and Daniel. For more about about them, see the
ATTRA website |
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Daniel Hoover
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There isn't much that Daniel
doesn’t do at Lakeview – he coordinates and
schedules the feed deliveries each week,
supervises all of us, helps dairy farmers with
their rations, meets with suppliers and farmers,
plans and implements much of the short-term
maintenance and repair, and the long-term
improvements, monitors inventory, and much more.
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Lester Martin
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helps with feed grinding, facility maintenance,
and most recently, he has assumed management of
seed inventory, seed cleaning, warehousing,
filling and keeping track of seed orders and
monitoring our seed production fields. With
our seed sales increasing this spring so
phenomenally, Lester has done a truly amazing
job of maintaining order in the midst of chaos.
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Kent Foster
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conscientiously grinds our feed every day,
giving each batch his personal attention and
care. There are many weeks when Kent can claim
credit for nearly 200 tons of feed, all because
of him! Kent is an artist, both with feed at
work, and at home with wood, ink and other
materials. |
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Sheila Foster
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is
that cheerful, caring, helpful voice you hear
when you call Lakeview. A city girl, Sheila
has learned an amazing amount about farming and
farmers during the 2 years that she has been
working at Lakeview, answering the phones,
preparing delivery slips, waiting on customers,
and keeping up with inventory. |
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Ed Tears |
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may the person you’ll see when our green
Peterbilt feed truck pulls in your driveway. In
addition to delivering feed, Ed monitors the
grain bins here and at the farm, keeps the
grinding bins well supplied, he maintains the
trucks, and helps with many other mill
operations. |
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Stewart Breeds |
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has been here for about a year – assisting with
feed grinding, facility maintenance, truck
repair, and also on the farm when he has extra
time. Stewart's ability to do many different
things and his skill and conscientiousness
continues to impress us. |
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Dan Niver |
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is back driving feed truck part time for us, and
we are very happy about that. Dan is a grape
farmer from near here. |
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Clark Switzer |
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has been a member of our family for a long time,
and is our official ‘Lakeview Grandfather”.
Clark is always willing to help with trucking,
tractor work, and general assistance whenever we
need him. |
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Jack Aumick
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drives our feed trailer that we lease to our
local Penn Yan Marchionda Trucking company. We
appreciate how hard he, and Doug and Penne
Marchionda work each week to make sure our feed
gets delivered on time. |
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This page lasted updated
12/23/2009
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materials © Copyright 2008 CSA |