BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DREW GLOVER
WORKER-OWNER, FARM MANAGER
Originally from Santa Cruz, CA, Drew oversees the administrative side of the cooperative. Passionate about food justice, Drew also has a background in beekeeping and pollinator preservation.
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Seth Scott (SELMA, AL)
WORKER-OWNER, YOUTH FARM MANAGER
Seth is 19 years old and was born and raised in the Selma, AL area. He joined the farm in 2022 as an intern and has worked his way up to being one of the first youth board members. Seth is passionate about helping people and playing video games.
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Xaviera "Doola" Craig (SELMA, AL)
WORKER-OWNER, ASSISTANT YOUTH FARM MANAGER
Doola is 17 years old and originally from Selma, AL. Doola joined the farm in 2023 during the Summer Internship program and has worked her way up to leadership roles on and off the farm. She is a master with all things hair and really enjoys making people laugh.
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Tori Ratcliffe (CAMDEN, AL)
COMMUNITY-OWNER
Tori was born and raised in Camden, AL. She runs Hannah Bell Farms, an organic produce and pork farm in Camden, AL. She works to help her neighbors – many of whom struggle with hypertension and diabetes – learn how food can be a tool to help manage those issues. She also runs Wilcox Youth Entrepreneurship Program, an entrepreneurship program where she teaches youth in 3rd -12th grades how to grow, harvest, and sell crops, and to save the money they make doing it
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Sylvia Smith (SELMA, AL)
COMMUNITY-OWNER
Sylvia Smith is passionate about growing food and the history of the Selma, AL area. Past President of The Selma-Dallas County Historic Preservation Society, she is also a certified Master Gardener.
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LOCAL FARM ADVISORY BOARD
CAROLYN PICKETT (SELMA, AL)
COMMUNITY-OWNER, ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Carolyn Vassar Pickett is a Selma native. She has fond childhood memories of visits with her maternal grandparents at their farm where they raised cows and goats, fished from their private pond, grew and harvested much of the food which they consumed, both meat and plants. She recalls with relish, the Nanny goat that her paternal grandfather raised specifically for the milk that he consumed to help with digestive disorders.
GEORGE PARIS (TUSKEGEE, AL)
COMMUNITY-OWNER, ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
BIO IN THE WORKS.
CHIP SPENCER (Marion Junction, AL)
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Chip Spencer is a 4th generation Blackbelt farmer and owner of Spencer Company L.L.C., a land management and environmental restoration company based in Marion Junction, AL since 1984. Having worked with the unique soil type of the region for decades, and with his knowledge of both the native and non-native plants of the area, Chip brings a lot to the Local Farm Cooperative table.
PINKIE & CECIL HUFF (SELMA, AL)
ADVISORY BORAD MEMBER
Pinkie Huff's (picture coming soon) father was a farmer and she grew up that way in Selma, where she and her brothers helped her father on the farm. Her Christian faith is very important to her, and when she considers doing something she always prays about it. She lives in the neighborhood where the Local Farm Co-op is located and her husband Cecil Huff has volunteered for the Local to help with planting and clearing the land, and he has planted some on the land through a partnership with the Local.
Cecil Huff has been farming a lifetime, and grew up in Sprott in Perry County. “There ain’t too many things I don’t know, when it comes to that. We had to farm growing up," he says. He worked for the National Forest Service for around 25 years on and off, and would plant as many as 1,500 new trees a day after lumber companies would clear some of the land.