Meet Our Board Members
Kara Dodson
Lead Farmer and Executive Director
Kara’s farming career began in 2015 working with Ian and Kelly Snider learning cultivation techniques both ancestral and modern. She fell in love with horse powered field work, long days harvesting, selling to the community, and connecting with the land through the seasons. These qualities continue on with Full Moon Farm through her leadership to cultivate highly nutritious vegetables while using nuanced techniques learned over 10 years. On the horizon for Kara are offering equine therapy programs and mentoring new farmers. Her favorite veggies are two hardcore staples: carrots and cabbage!
Jacob Crigler
Co-Chair
Jacob started farming with Kara Dodson in 2015 and never looked back. Together they built Full Moon Farm from the ground up into a successful and loved business. Sawing and milling trees, building barns and greenhouses, raising horses and other livestock, and of course growing lots of veggies, Jacob has learned countless skills and life lessons along the way. Carpentry became not only a necessary skill but also another avenue of employment and joy for him. He is a passionate rock climber, skier, musician, cook, and husband. Jacob’s favorite vegetable is broccoli.
Kristin Wilson
Co-Chair and Secretary
Kristin Elaine Wilson facilitates healing and wellness with a holistic liberatory framework for individuals, groups, and organizations. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and currently practices through her business, Sacred Pathways Healing & Wellness. Throughout her career, Kristin worked within the non-profit, private, and government sectors specializing in women’s empowerment, therapy, domestic violence, Shadow Work, child protective services, anti-racism, ceremonial practices, LGBTQIA2S+ initiatives, youth work, leadership development, and holistic healing. Her favorite plant is Tulsi (Holy Basil) and her favorite veggies are beets and spicy arugula.
Emery Matthews
Treasurer
Emery is an outdoor enthusiast living in Triplett, NC only 2 miles away from Full Moon Farm. They work as an outdoor educator teaching Earth Skills through another local non-profit, Buffalo Cove Outdoor Education Center, and will share their passions and skills through the Full Moon Farm Collective workshops and events. If you can’t find them, they’re probably just in the woods with their dogs or munching on their favorite veggie, Murasaki Sweet Potatoes.
Tommy Lee McGee
Board Member
Tommy Lee is an Artist, Graphic Designer, and the Creative Director of Sir Tom Foolery Art and Design. His passion, muse, and motivation in life is all things Art. To be given the opportunity/ responsibility to bring vision into this material world is what he chooses to do in some way each day as he believes it provides hope and real value in a world desperate for both. As a proud black male born in Miami, FL and educated in Atlanta GA, and raised by a Bahamian father, he brings his culture, perspective and heart into his current home of Boone, NC and WNC where he has been at home for 13 years. As a proud board member of both the Watauga County Arts Council and The Full Moon Farm Collective, Tommy Lee strives along with co-conspirators to use his gifts to inspire and uplift community and self.
Celina McGregor
Board Member
Celina started her adventures in horticulture in 2013 exploring various avenues in the field from time spent working as a farmer to compost and vermicast production to a zoo to a Japanese friendship garden to tree climber she couldn’t get enough of what the field had to offer in regards to bringing plants and the public together. As a recent transplant to Ashe County from the Sonoran desert she gets to explore her beloved field in an entirely new environment which has given her a fresh perspective. On any given weekday you can find Celina on the app state campus where she works full time as an arborist, takes evening art classes and enjoys swimming laps at the rec center in her free time.
