Board of Directors

The Land’s Sake Board of Directors was founded in 1980 by Brian Donahue, Doug Henderson, Pat Siek and Martha Gogel.

Our current Board members are:

Ned Rossiter, Board President
Ned Rossiter has lived in Weston for 40 years and has been with Land's Sake since its founding in 1980. A career secondary history teacher and administrator, Ned retired from the Newton North High School in 2001 and is currently teaching in the Education Program at Brandeis University. It has been a great joy for him to watch Land's Sake grow over the years.

Kirk Jensen, Treasurer

Barbara Keller, Secretary
Barbara has a checkered past, consisting of being a professor of biology, ecologist, landscape designer, computer programmer, singer, potter, felt-maker, mother, and dog rescuer. She moved to Weston nine years ago and got involved with Land’s Sake to her great delight, finding there a community of people who respect the land that supports us.

Joe Berman
Joe Berman is a Weston resident and a lawyer in Boston. He and his family live a few blocks from the farm and they are active participants in its activities.

Nina Danforth
Nina Danforth served on the Land’s Sake board as Vice President from 1998-2008. She has been a career environmental educator since her first job teaching and urban greening in a Philadelphia high school. She has a BA degree from Tufts and MS from Antioch New England Graduate School. Nina worked at Land’s Sake in the 1980s when her children were big enough to pick up a sap bucket, and continues to be active with the farm and school groups. She is married to Henry Stone, a builder.

John Marchiony
John Marchiony married Deb, a lifer through the Weston school system, and arrived at Land's Sake in June, 2002 with a voracious 2-year-old who ate strawberries seemingly for hours. John enjoys hand-picking and has been known to pick kilos of carrots, tomatoes, onions, and berries, and makes a colorful, flavorful, renowned broccoli salad. He's a marketing consultant who works extensively with non-profits and startups.

Alyson Muzila, Vice President
Alyson Muzila has lived in Weston for eight years and has served on the Land's Sake Board since 2004. She attended Macalester College and has a background in environmental communications. She currently works for Mass Audubon as a teacher naturalist at Drumlin Farm and serves on the boards of the Weston Land Trust, the Weston Community Children's Association (WCCA) and Drumlin Farm's Sanctuary Committee. She and her husband Peter have three sons.

Faith Rand
Faith has been involved with Land's Sake off and on since the beginning, and was a Green Power kid before that with Bill McElwain. She worked on staff at Land's Sake, in the fields and minding the farm stand. She also helped maintain the farm's flock of sheep for wool and meat, grazing ewes and lambs in little back pastures all over town. She is married to Brian Donahue and has two children, Liam and Maggie, who are 5th generation Westonians.