{"id":14,"date":"2011-12-14T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2020-06-29T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:04:53","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Atina Diffley<\/strong> is an organic farmer, public speaker and author of the 2013 Minnesota Book Award winner, Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works&#8211;a memoir based on Atina\u2019s life running the Gardens of Eagan organic vegetable farm. Her advocacy has addressed the pressures of suburban development, and she successfully led a legal and citizen campaign against the notorious polluters, Koch Industries, to create an Organic Mitigation Plan for organic farms in Minnesota. Subscribe to Atina\u2019s on-line blog at www.atinadiffley.com.<\/p>\n<h3>Awards and Recognitions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Female Organic Farmer of the Year | <a href=\"http:\/\/w-e-i.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women&#8217;s Environmental Institute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thefriends.org\/minnesota-book-awards\/minnesota-book-awards-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Book Award<\/a>, Memoir and Creative Non-fiction | Friends Of The Saint Paul Public Library<\/li>\n<li>Successful Farmer of the Year || EcoFarm (California)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Minnesota Law and Politics Lawsuit of the Year Gardens of Eagan\" href=\"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lawpolitics.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawsuit of the Year || Minnesota Law and Politics<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cooperate for Community Award || National Cooperative Grocer Association<\/li>\n<li>Organic Farmer of the Year || Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Services<\/li>\n<li>New Initiative Farmer of the Year\u00a0 || Dakota County MN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Community\u00a0Service<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Strong, sustainable, resilient farm businesses are built on a solid legal foundation \" href=\"http:\/\/farmcommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Farm Commons<\/a>\u00a0|| Board Member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Past Service<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Organic Seed Alliance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seedalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Organic Seed Alliance<\/a> || Vice President<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosesorganic.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Services (MOSES<\/a><a title=\"Minnesota Institute of Sustainable Agriculture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.misa.umn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">) || Vice-President\/Secretary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Minnesota Institute of Sustainable Agriculture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.misa.umn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Institute of Sustainable Agriculture<\/a> || Secretary\/Treasurer<\/li>\n<li>Eureka Township Agri-Tourism Task Force<\/li>\n<li>Organic Field School || Founding President<\/li>\n<li>Citizens Energy Task Force || Founding Vice-chair<\/li>\n<li>Organic Processing Institute || Founding Secretary\/Treasurer<\/li>\n<li>Strategic Visioning Citizen Advisory Committee || Eureka Township<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC03517-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Atina Diffley\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atina Diffley is an organic farmer, public speaker and author of the 2013 Minnesota Book Award winner, Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works&#8211;a memoir based on Atina\u2019s life running the Gardens of Eagan organic vegetable farm. Her advocacy has addressed the pressures of suburban development, and she successfully led a legal and citizen campaign&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atinadiffley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}