Program Director – Public Policy

Margaret Krome is Policy Program Director for the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in East Troy, Wisconsin. After two decades of coordinating the sustainable agriculture movement’s national grassroots appropriations campaign, she focuses on developing state and local programs and policies supporting environmentally sound, profitable, and socially responsible agriculture. Ms. Krome coordinates a farmer-led watershed group in Southwest Wisconsin as well as a cover crops research and outreach collaboration and is active on several agricultural initiatives related to climate and market resilience.