Team
MEET OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT: Kaye Suzuki
Kaye is a recently retired Rangeland Management Specialist with the US Forest Service. She joined
MF2F in 2010, is the manager of the MF2F Geothermal Greenhouse, and co-chair of the Greenhouse committee. She was raised on a working cattle ranch in the Bitterroot Valley where she was drafted into working in the extensive family vegetable garden. Little did she know at the time she had been officially bitten by the gardening bug that would shape her life into what it is today. She has been gardening in Ennis for 25 years, received an Advanced Master Gardeners certificate and to help allay other residents’ fear of gardening at 5000’ elevation she has taught several Adult Education classes on successful gardening in the Madison Valley. Kaye and her husband Kevin have lived in Ennis for 32 years, and have two grown children who grew up enjoying the very locally produced vegetables and fruits of their backyard where they also raise chickens for eggs and meat.
VICE PRESIDENT: Janet Bean-Dochnahl
Janet is a 33 year resident of the Madison Valley. As a small child Janet's mother encouraged her to plant her own vegetables in their small garden plot. She has cultivated a passion for growing and putting up food since then. Janet recently retired from the US Forest Service and now directs the Farm to School program for MF2F as well as working part-time for the Montana Land Reliance. Her husband, Doc, and two grown children share her love for home-grown and local food, raising chickens and harvesting wild fish and game.
SECRETARY: David Hoag
David grew up in the Madison Valley on a Hereford ranch at the lower edge of the timberline below Fan Mountain and between Jack Creek and Cedar Creek. There, on the mountainside, in the rich, black, loam soil, grew a vegetable garden with potatoes, corn, lettuce, beans, peas, squash, and annual flowers. Summers from school were spent weeding and watering the garden; and, irrigating the hay fields and stacking the bales. Graduating with a degree in Agricultural Economics from Montana State, he left the Valley in 1971 and traveled with the U.S. Air Force. Duty included posts to Virginia, Cape Cod, New York, Germany, Iceland, and Alaska. A resident of Boise, ID, for the 20 years, he returned to a retirement home in McAllister in the summer of 2011. Now a candidate for Master Gardener, he serves on the Board as Secretary.
Kaye is a recently retired Rangeland Management Specialist with the US Forest Service. She joined
MF2F in 2010, is the manager of the MF2F Geothermal Greenhouse, and co-chair of the Greenhouse committee. She was raised on a working cattle ranch in the Bitterroot Valley where she was drafted into working in the extensive family vegetable garden. Little did she know at the time she had been officially bitten by the gardening bug that would shape her life into what it is today. She has been gardening in Ennis for 25 years, received an Advanced Master Gardeners certificate and to help allay other residents’ fear of gardening at 5000’ elevation she has taught several Adult Education classes on successful gardening in the Madison Valley. Kaye and her husband Kevin have lived in Ennis for 32 years, and have two grown children who grew up enjoying the very locally produced vegetables and fruits of their backyard where they also raise chickens for eggs and meat.
VICE PRESIDENT: Janet Bean-Dochnahl
Janet is a 33 year resident of the Madison Valley. As a small child Janet's mother encouraged her to plant her own vegetables in their small garden plot. She has cultivated a passion for growing and putting up food since then. Janet recently retired from the US Forest Service and now directs the Farm to School program for MF2F as well as working part-time for the Montana Land Reliance. Her husband, Doc, and two grown children share her love for home-grown and local food, raising chickens and harvesting wild fish and game.
SECRETARY: David Hoag
David grew up in the Madison Valley on a Hereford ranch at the lower edge of the timberline below Fan Mountain and between Jack Creek and Cedar Creek. There, on the mountainside, in the rich, black, loam soil, grew a vegetable garden with potatoes, corn, lettuce, beans, peas, squash, and annual flowers. Summers from school were spent weeding and watering the garden; and, irrigating the hay fields and stacking the bales. Graduating with a degree in Agricultural Economics from Montana State, he left the Valley in 1971 and traveled with the U.S. Air Force. Duty included posts to Virginia, Cape Cod, New York, Germany, Iceland, and Alaska. A resident of Boise, ID, for the 20 years, he returned to a retirement home in McAllister in the summer of 2011. Now a candidate for Master Gardener, he serves on the Board as Secretary.
MEMBER AT LARGE: Chris McCown