George Kuepper

George has close to 30 years of experience with sustainable and organic agriculture. He has worked mostly in the non-profit sector as a researcher, educator, producer, and consultant, including an earlier stint with the Kerr Center in the late 1980s. Before rejoining Kerr Center, he worked for NCAT (the National Center for Appropriate Technology) on the ATTRA Project and served as NCAT's Midwest Office Director in Lewis, Iowa. There he focused on organic agriculture, specializing on compliance, certification, and transition issues. George is currently responsible for developing Kerr Center's intern program, for reviving organic horticultural demonstrations on the ranch, and for reviewing and updating Kerr Center's technical publications and information packets.

George is originally from Wisconsin, where he grew up on a small dairy farm outside of Milwaukee. He earned a Bachelors degree in Geography and a Masters in agronomy from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His home is now in Fayetteville, Arkansas where he lives with his wife, Dee, and an ever-changing number of pets.