Root to Rise staff & Board
Board of Directors:
Tim Wennrich - President
Owner of Meadowstone Farm in Bethlehem NH. Along with his wife, Jessie Griffiths, he is committed to building and strengthening community in the North Country. When not picking rocks they can be found exploring with their three kids Jeb, (24), Cole(21) and Ani(17).
Ed King - Vice President
Ed is the General Manager of the Littleton Food COOP and has guided it for over a dozen years. Under Ed's leadership the COOP as it has become an inspiration for COOPs around the nation and an invaluable local community member and assest. While serving on local nonprofit boards, Ed also finds time to mentor start up COOPs in Berlin, NH and St. Johnsbury, VT. Ed has long been a champion of local food and healthy food access and in his lack of spare time he can be found chasing grandkids and dreaming of retirement in Portugal.
Becky Colpitts - Secretary
Becky is the community outreach coordinator at the Littleton COOP and wears many hats in the community. Her networking and ability to herd cats is second to only to her organization skills. Her and her husband live in Monroe, NH.
Vicki DaLalla - Treasurer
Vickie lives in Strafford NH and is the motivation behind the Strafford Grange resurgance and their support of local gardens in the area.
Michael Claflin
Mike has been committed to strethening communties in the North Country and surrounding Vermont for long time. He is one of the instigators and founding board members of the Littleton Food COOP, was the executive directer of AHEAD, a local housing organization and is currently on the board of Walden Mutual, a newly formed bank dedicated to support agriculture in the Northeast. He has dreams of returning to hike the Inca trail or anywhere else his wife, Alice, drags him.
Tim Wennrich - President
Owner of Meadowstone Farm in Bethlehem NH. Along with his wife, Jessie Griffiths, he is committed to building and strengthening community in the North Country. When not picking rocks they can be found exploring with their three kids Jeb, (24), Cole(21) and Ani(17).
Ed King - Vice President
Ed is the General Manager of the Littleton Food COOP and has guided it for over a dozen years. Under Ed's leadership the COOP as it has become an inspiration for COOPs around the nation and an invaluable local community member and assest. While serving on local nonprofit boards, Ed also finds time to mentor start up COOPs in Berlin, NH and St. Johnsbury, VT. Ed has long been a champion of local food and healthy food access and in his lack of spare time he can be found chasing grandkids and dreaming of retirement in Portugal.
Becky Colpitts - Secretary
Becky is the community outreach coordinator at the Littleton COOP and wears many hats in the community. Her networking and ability to herd cats is second to only to her organization skills. Her and her husband live in Monroe, NH.
Vicki DaLalla - Treasurer
Vickie lives in Strafford NH and is the motivation behind the Strafford Grange resurgance and their support of local gardens in the area.
Michael Claflin
Mike has been committed to strethening communties in the North Country and surrounding Vermont for long time. He is one of the instigators and founding board members of the Littleton Food COOP, was the executive directer of AHEAD, a local housing organization and is currently on the board of Walden Mutual, a newly formed bank dedicated to support agriculture in the Northeast. He has dreams of returning to hike the Inca trail or anywhere else his wife, Alice, drags him.