Mark Lipson is a CCOF Certified Organic farmer (Molino Creek Farming Collective), a former CCOF staff member, and former Policy Director for the Organic Farming Research Foundation. He recently served as the USDA's Organic Agriculture Policy Advisor in Washington, DC. Now he’s back at Molino Creek Farm, hoping for a good dry-farmed tomato crop this fall. Mark is also currently a Research Associate with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Farming Systems at University of California Santa Cruz.