Judith McGeary is a founding board member of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and is the WAPF chapterleader for Austin, Texas. She is also an attorney, a farmer, and the Executive Director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. The Alliance is a non-profit organization founded to protect the rights of independent farmers, ranchers, and homesteaders, and to help ensure the success of independent agriculture.

Ms. McGeary has a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University and a J.D. with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin. In her legal career, she has practiced administrative law, litigation, and appeals. She and her husband run a small farm with heritage poultry, sheep, cows, and horses.

Howard Vlieger is the president and co-founder of Verity Farms. He began the journey of a lifetime in 1989 when he started using alternative farming practices on the family farm. Howard considers it an amazing privilege to be a care taker of the soil: “The Good Lord made an awesome creation when He created the soil. It is a true joy to continue the never-ending learning experience of working with all of the biological and elemental components of the soil to produce clean, high quality, nutritious food for all deserving consumers to eat.”

Verity Farms works with crop and livestock producers in 7 states. Verity Farms has a successful biological crop production division, a grain division, a feed division focusing on natural livestock production, and a natural meat division. The mission of Verity Farms is the reestablishment of the “family farmer.” Howard also serves on the Board of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance.