Tristan Noyes is the Executive Director for the Maine Grain Alliance. He is also the co-founder of GROMAINE, an organic farm in Aroostook County. GROMAINE specializes in the production of wide variety of vegetables, with a special concentration on lettuce. The farm sells produce to a diverse array of restaurants, colleges, independent markets, farmers markets, mail order customers and direct-to-consumer farm shares in Maine, New England, & New York. Tristan grew up in northern Maine in a farming family who taught the importance of socially responsible environmental and economic stewardship of our land. Tristan now lives in southern Maine where he helps build relationships with local food businesses, while his brother Jon manages the operations in northern Maine.