Rural Roots is a community of people who enjoy growing in a sustainable fashion. Our mission is to help you succeed at your farm, ranch or your urban space while making your land and your life better. We want to help you; whether you want to start a CSA, develop a value-added product or teach your kids about pollinator habitat. To reach more people we host a monthly Speaker's Series and have been putting our presentations up on our YouTube channel. We are also involved with the Pollinator Summit and hosted the Fruit and Vegetable section of the Latah County Fair.

To help educate people we combine the best of grandma and grandpa's growing practices with the latest in farming and ranching techniques. We mix a teaspoon of advice from Farmer's Almanac with research from scientific journals to inform you of innovative techniques for growing to help advance sustainable farming. Our sources may be a 2020 research paper on blueberry epigenetics or an 89-year-old farmer who grows the biggest berries anyone has ever seen. We want you to be in the know about practices to boost your yields, techniques to reduce your work load, beautiful plants to lure in the bees, exercises to ease your anxiety, and how to use all of this knowledge to improve the health of your land, air and water.

Right now we have no staff but are a dedicated group of people who want the Rural Roots community to thrive. If you would be interested in helping with our efforts or joining the Rural Roots community please let us know below!

The TeamMeet our board members.




Deborah Berman

Outreach Coordinator and Secretary
Palouse Permaculture Moscow, ID

Suvia Judd

President
Sunswept Hills Farm
Moscow, ID

Susan Fluegel

Treasurer and Website
Grey Duck Garlic and Working Gloves Farms
Moscow, ID

Cathy Perillo

Board Advisor
WSU Faculty in Soil Science
& West Cove Farm,
Viola, ID

Dallas Rich

Bookkeeper
Moscow, ID


Susan Fluegel is the Rural Roots treasurer and enjoys playing with the website. She is a nutritional biochemist by night who loves to dig in the dirt during the day. Susan is also afraid one of her soil science professors will see this and remind her that it is soil NOT dirt that you dig in (Hi Bob and Jodi).

Susan's passions include pollinator research, epigenetics, using diet and lifestyle to prevent disease and increase cognitive abilities, lecturing unsuspecting people about mitochondria and the health benefits of chocolate, sustainable agriculture, and big fat bumblebees.

Superpowers: handling big fat bumblebees (gently!), digging holes, and explaining the electron transport system by drawing with a stick in the ground.




Dallas Rich is the bookkeeper here at Rural Roots. Originally from Texas, she has spent the past ten years making the PNW her home (yes, she did live in Dallas, TX; no, that's not why she's named Dallas, but you can go ahead and have a good laugh about it anyway - she won't mind).

An independent contractor for over five years, she loves her work and the fact that it affords her the ability to stay home with her daughter. In her downtime, you may find her hiking, reading classic novels, attempting to master various skills (such as acro yoga, hooping, and tennis - with varying levels of success), befriending the local crows with bribes of peanuts, or perusing farmer's markets in search of local produce and flavors to test out tasty new recipes with her daughter/exceptionally talented sous chef.