Kim Johnson | Executive Director

As a former food manufacturer, Bohemia Food Hub’s owner, Kim Johnson, has personal experience with what it takes to start and sustain a successful food business. Lacking connections with other food manufactures, she was forced to unravel the mysteries of developing a wholesale product ready for market and eventually for growth. After scaling and selling her business in 2018, she has focused her efforts on developing the Food Hub with a collaborative entrepreneurial ecosystem of shared knowledge and mutual support. Today, there are 11 evolving food businesses in the licensed commercial kitchen, 5 Food Trucks, and a natural foods store front (Coast Fork Farm Stand), all developed in response to a demand for affordable space to conduct food-based business. This affordability is one of the strategic advantages of Cottage Grove's rural location.

AMY HAUSE | Board of Directors

Amy has over 20 years of management and leadership experience in the nonprofit and private sectors, and since 2004, she’s focused on community development both internationally and locally. Her first work with communities was in West Africa, and since then, she has worked with communities and programs in West Africa, Haiti, Guatemala, Kosovo, the Middle East, East Asia, and finally in the Pacific Northwest. Economic development has been a significant focus of this work, including management of a social enterprise in The Gambia that linked smallholder farmers with markets to improve livelihoods. Amy’s work has also included community infrastructure, girls’ and women’s rights, and building community resilience. Throughout this work, she has had the opportunity to build her skills in the areas of strategic planning, program performance and evaluation, and organizational development, and she is committed to program excellence. Amy is particularly passionate about working with communities to expand economic opportunities, and she’s delighted for the chance to work with communities in the Pacific Northwest.

Sarah Cantril | Board of Directors

Since 1991, Sarah as devoted her social work career to working with the Latinx and indigenous Guatemalan communities. In the early years working in social service agencies, she learned first hand from families how hard people worked and also how difficult it was for them to put food on the table. In 1999, she started Huerto de la Familia (The Family Garden) with a small group of Latinx mothers. Huerto de la Familia offers Latinx families a place to connect to their roots and the earth by growing their own organic food, as well as education in organic gardening, small scale farming, and small business creation. During her 16 year tenure with the organization she became involved in the Food Justice Movement nationwide, speaking to university classes and at conferences on topics related to U.S. policy in Latin America and it’s impact on Northern migration, Oregon’s economic dependence on the Latinx community, and the injustices faced by Latinx workers in the food system as farmworkers, mushroom pickers, food processors, and restaurant workers. Sarah has taught as an adjunct professor at Pacific University in the Masters of Social Work Program and is currently a volunteer with Oregon Worker Relief Fund, Rural Organizing Project, and Bohemia Food Hub.

Former Board Members

Carly Boyer| Local Foods Local Places Program Coordinator

Carly served as a RARE Americorps member at Bohemia Food Hub. She is a 4th generation Oregonian and comes from a farming family, based in the Willamette Valley. She graduated with a B.S. in Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM) and a Minor in Nonprofit Administration at the University of Oregon. During college, Carly consulted for the City of Eugene on the future development of a Climate Resiliency Hub and completed the project management of a professional greenhouse during her internship serving Huerto de la Familia in Eugene, Oregon. Carly is a ‘Land Equity Fellow’ for National Young Farmers Coalition and a Board Member for Rewild Portland.