  Doug
Walton
Doug helps coordinate the Kerr Center’s Community Food projects.
His work involves assessing and developing efforts to improve local
food systems in Oklahoma, such as through Farm-to-School and farmers’ markets.
Since the early 90’s, he has advocated for sustainable family
farms and local food systems while living in Utah, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Prior to his involvement with sustainable agriculture, Doug earned
his Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance from Texas
State University in San Marcos, TX in 1989. After graduating,
he and his wife moved to Utah and worked seasonally with the Forest
Service, restoring stream habitat and fighting wildfires. While
in Utah, he also completed college coursework in science and geography
at the University of Utah, preparing for graduate studies in natural
resource conservation.
During the mid-90’s, Doug was an intern and then research
assistant on the Sunshine Farm Project at The Land Institute in
Salina, Kansas. He also worked as a farm apprentice at The
Wild Onion farm in Lawrence, KS, before moving to Oklahoma to start
his own market farm near Muskogee, in 1997.
Doug helped establish the Oklahoma Farmers’ Market Alliance
in 2000 and serves as the president of the Muskogee Farmers’ Market,
where he and his family sold organic produce for 3 years. He lives with his wife and two children on their 8 acre farm,
where they raise a big garden and a small flock of chickens. In
his spare time, when not renovating the farmhouse, Doug enjoys
canoeing, camping and playing Frisbee. |
