Penny Molina serves as the current SCWFU board president.  She and her husband Phil are joyful stewards of Still Point Flower Farm, a 15-acre flower farm in Brooklyn, WI.  During the summer, they grow beautiful flowers for their CSA and host weddings and other agricultural tourism events. Having worked in the agriculture business sector for the last 20 years, she assisted farmers through her positions at DATCP’s Dairy Business Innovation Center, the Biodynamic Association and UW’s Food Finance Institute. She helped found a local farming network, Bountiful Brooklyn, to aid neighboring small family farmers in gaining marketplace awareness. Newly retired from her professional career, Penny volunteers as a farm mentor with Women Food Agricultural Network (WFAN) and as a youth mentor through Girls Inc. of Evansville. 

Sheila Everhart is currently serving her third term on the South Central Wisconsin Farmers Union Chapter Board, where she is Vice President and Policy Committee Chair. Her roots in agriculture run deep; she married into a farming family 45 years ago and helps operate Everhart Family Farms in Rock County. The farm raises beef cattle, corn, soybeans, and hay, and features a popular pumpkin farmstand. After a 27-year career as an off-farm educator, Sheila returned to the farm full-time to help the fifth generation become actively involved in the operation. She successfully bridged her background in education with her love for agriculture by serving the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association (WATA)—first as a director for nine years, and subsequently as Executive Director for five years. Sheila is also a graduate of the WFBF Leadership Institute and a dedicated volunteer with the Rock County Farm Bureau, having served as Executive Director, Ag in the Classroom Coordinator, Promotion and Education Chair, and Fair Food Stand Coordinator.

Olivia Roth serves as the Secretary and chairs the Communications Committee for SCWFU. She has been involved in WFU since she was 12, completing the youth program, attending summer camps, working as camp staff (counselor, medic, and assistant director), serving a year-long term on National Farmers Union’s National Youth Advisory Council, and attending NFU Legislative Fly-In numerous times. She graduated from UW-Whitewater in December 2024 with degrees in English and Spanish, and currently works in the UW-Madison Division of Extension Green County Office, assisting in local programming related to agriculture, youth, community development, and more. She lives and works on her family’s farm in Albany, where they raise sheep, chickens, rabbits, and vegetables.

Kathy Pennington
Kathy Pennington serves as the Treasurer and Parliamentarian on the South Central Wisconsin Farmers Union board.  A rural Wisconsin resident with an MBA, she has several years of experience preparing small-business taxes. She also serves as Chair of the Town of Brooklyn and as a Green County Supervisor, where she is a member of the Highway and Zoning Committees. These roles and experiences enable her to effectively advocate for farmers and support agricultural initiatives throughout the region. She also volunteers as a girls’ mentor for the Evansville Girls Inc. program.
 
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John E. Peck, chairs the Membership Committee, and operates Yellow Dog Flowers and Produce on twenty acres between Brooklyn and Belleville with his partner, Molly, two dogs (Honey & Peanut), four sheep (Mama Bear, Creampuff, Cocoa, Bessie) and a diverse chicken flock.  Beyond selling at the Northside Farmers Market in Madison and seasonal CSA deliveries, they also have a farm stand and offer local flowers for special events.   John is the longtime executive director of Family Farm Defenders, a national grassroots organization founded by WI farmers in 1994, but which has now grown to several thousand members in all fifty states.  He is also a graduate of the UW-Madison Nelson Institute (PhD in Land Resources) and teaches Economics part-time at Madison College.
 
Sue Nelson
A local advocate for conservation, Sue Nelson championed the Clean Water Now advisory referendum question to prioritize water quality in our community. Sue is active with the MultiCultural Outreach Program, a regional nonprofit that supports refugees to the area. Sue is also a member of the Board of Directors of Food, Faith and Farming. FFFN provides seed money grants so businesses can grow and add value to their community.  She and her husband steward 14 acres of diverse habitat in woodlands, prairie, animal habitat along with some crop land. With an emphasis on conservation practices and methods, always learning as they go. 

Fifth-generation organic regenerative farmer Mark Doudlah, along with wife Lucy and son Jason, operates Doudlah Farms Organic, LLC.  The farm incorporates 1,500 certified USDA Organic, ROC-Regenerative, Demeter US-Biodynamic acres growing specialty food-grade grains, corn and beans in Rock and Dane County. The farm is also HRI-Tested Clean. Doudlah Farms sells what they grow wholesale and direct to consumers at Doudlahfarms.com. Mark is a sought-after advisor on Organics and Regenerative Agriculture as well as an award-winning educator, writer and keynote speaker. Mark serves as President of Agrecol Native Nursery, the premier grower of native plants and seeds. In addition, Mark serves as an advisor on the Wisconsin Organic Advisory Council and at the Rodale Institute.  Other affiliations include OGRAIN/UW Madison steering committee, Naturally Network and Mom’s Across America.  As a board member of SCWFU, Mark chairs the Ag Business Committee.

Alicia joins the board for her first term as Events Chair. She lives on a 5-acre hobby farm in Green County and has hosted events on the property through Soil Sisters and Wisconsin Women in Conservation. She grows medicinal herbs and heritage produce, as well as a large pollinator garden, using plants from the Xerces Society. She and her family raise and butcher their own meat birds, have egg layers and meat rabbits, and have experience with dairy goats and sheep. They also do farm sitting within the Green County area about 2-3 times a year. Alicia stays busy homeschooling her 2 children, serving on the coaching staff for the Green County Gators swim team, leading a scouting club, and teaching private music lessons.

 

Jonas Moench has been farming on the McDonald beef operation in La Prairie Township since he was 10. While continuing to work there as well as Blain’s, Jonas now lives with his family, wife Heather and two children, Evie and Leland in Orfordville, Rock County. Putting into practice his many years in the industry, Jonas sits on SCWFU’s Ag Business Committee. When he’s not out among the cattle, Jonas enjoys deer hunting, helping out with church activities, and collecting International Harvester memorabilia as a member of the Chapter 4 International Harvester Collector’s Club.