Widely published food and agriculture writer, publisher, editor and non-profit executive with experience in coordinating and organizing large and small events showcasing sustainable agriculture and family farms.

 

An award-winning activist who has served as a board member for numerous local, statewide and national governmental programs and NGOs working with agriculture, food security and culinary issues.

 

Certified barbecue judge.

 

 

 

 

 

Zach eating Shepherd's Pie in

Oughterard, Ireland, March 2003.

Zach with former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower and Family Farm Defenders founder John Kinsman at Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo, Wisconsin, Sept. 2005.