Seed Savers, Executive Director, Kent Whealy fired!

walking the trails of Twin Valleys (and I love those beautiful landscapes with all my heart). I may never again be on SSE’s board, which I had been looking forward to during my retirement years. Actually, I just want to feel welcome again at Heritage Farm and on Twin Valleys. What the board has done to me is viciously unfair! Their actions are indefensible! None of this had to go the way that it did!

I am obviously upset with how I was treated, but I hope you understand that my main concern right now is protecting our organization and its future, as I’m sure you are. Contact information for SSE’s current board members is listed below so that each of them can be asked to address your questions and concerns. As members of SSE, you have the right to have all of your questions answered and your concerns addressed. Furthermore, if you share my opinions, please join me in demanding that this current board step aside and allow a new leadership group to get SSE out of the mess that I feel currently exists. Your efforts right now are critical! We all need to act decisively to take back the organization and its resources in the name of its members, and to permanently set all of this right!

In celebration of diversity,

Kent Whealy P. O. Box 653 Charlevoix, MI 49720

(phone: 231-547-7374) (e-mail: kentwhealy@gmail.com)

[To have additional copies of this letter sent to SSE’s members and concerned friends, e-mail or phone or write to me at my new contact information, above.]

Contact information for SSE’s Board of Directors

Amy Goldman, 164 Mountain View Road, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 (home phone: 845-266-4545; line 2: 845-266-5294; cell: 917-853-1690; e-mail: agoldthum@aol.com)

Neil Hamilton, 3176 Timber Ridge Trail, Waukee IA 50263 (home phone: 515-987-2559; cell: 515-490-1577; e-mail: neil.hamilton@drake.edu)

Deborah Madison, 2 Marcellina Lane, Galisteo NM 87540 (home phone: 505-466-0850; e-mail: deborahmadison@earthlink.net)

Rob Johnston, 180 Foss Hills Rd., Albion, ME 09401 (home phone: 207-861-3992; email: rjohnston@johnnyseeds.com)

Cary Fowler, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., Via le delle Tereme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy (office phone: 39 06 570 53841; fax: 39 06 570 55609; e-mail: cary.fowler@croptrust.org)

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