Our Team — Cultural Sphere

Rebecca has served the BDA in communications roles since 2007. With a background in law, she moved to Eugene to pursue an MS degree in environmental studies at the University of Oregon. During this time, she found her passion for food and farming issues while working on Ruby and Amber's Organic Farm, a small, diverse, horse-powered farm in Dorena, Oregon. She enjoys the challenges and creativity of communications work, helping to connect the community to information and each other, and learning new technologies and skills. She is grateful to work within the dynamic international biodynamic community while also enjoying what the southern Willamette Valley has to offer. She loves to get out on the trail, spend time discovering ever more about her local landscape and flora and fauna, and expand her culinary horizons. Rebecca lives on land originally stewarded by Yoncalla, Winefelly, Kalapuya, and other Indigenous peoples.

Zachary Krebs has been using computers since he was a little kid, even learning to read in part from Reader Rabbit 2 on a DOS PC. He developed his first website distributing debate briefings/evidence in early 2004. Since then, his interests have broadened into constituent management and content management website tools as well as integrated open source non-profit solutions. He currently lives in Portland, OR. Currently reading: "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice".

What we now call Portland, OR and Multnomah County were the traditional lands of the Cowlitz, Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Tualatin Kalapuya, Wasco, Molalla, and Watlala bands of the Chinook, and many other nations of the Nch’i Wána (“The Big River”), also known as the Columbia.

Anthony Mecca has been farming for 15 years, being introduced to biodynamics early on and working with many experienced farmers and mentors. He has worked in market gardening, small grains, and perennial crops including berries and tree fruit. For 8 years, he managed his own diversified CSA farm. He has also cared for a variety of animals, including the use of draft horses as the main source of power, a 15 cow herd on his diversified CSA farm, and more recently working on a raw milk dairy. The farm and garden as a center of community life is pivotal in his work. Bringing people into relationship with the wonder, beauty, and nourishment a biodynamic farm can provide, and seeing them grow and develop through this relationship individually and in community over the years has inspired his work. Anthony has recently developed a year-long course on Biodynamic Agriculture and Nutrition available through EduCareDo and through the Biodynamic Association’s Development Year Farmer Training Program. In addition to this course and his farmer training work with the BDA, he offers workshops, mentorship, training, and consulting near his home in the Hudson Valley of NY and beyond, in person and remotely, and would love to support biodynamic agriculture and nutrition developing on your farm, garden, or community. Anthony lives on land originally stewarded by the Onʌyote'a•ka (Oneida), Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee), and other Indigenous peoples.

Grace joins the BDA with a not-yet-fully-understood soul connection to biodynamics and anthroposophy. Her relationship to Steiner and his teachings were initiated and greatly fostered by formative time spent at Camphill Village Minnesota, and comes out of an ever-unraveling desire to understand the mysteries of food, to the core. She has spent the last decade exploring the many facets of food, predominantly in the realms of agriculture and nutrition, with seemingly inconsequential, yet impactful experiences in food law and policy sprinkled throughout. Her chronic health complications (which are now close to non-existent!), have also served as a guiding force, assisting her towards further alignment with her desires to live in honor of and reciprocity with the Earth. She and her husband currently reside in Duvall, Washington, land originally stewarded by the Coast Salish, Snoqualamie, and Tulalip peoples. They are intent on further developing their understanding of traditional skills and ways of existing in harmony with the Earth. They hope to forever nurture a balance between a careful tending to and cultivation of the Earth, and a more ancestrally guided interaction and communication with Earth as wilderness. Outside of her involvement with the BDA, Grace is mother to a blossoming practice in functional nutrition and serves her community as a student midwife. Birth work in her eyes dances intimately with the core essence of food as life, both for humanity, as well as for the Earth. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of California, Davis.