Presented by: Susan Dobbins, Wildhorse Gardens & Market & James Tyree, TSET

Community partnerships are key to strong farmers markets. This session provides insight into how the Wildhorse Gardens & Market & TSET have worked to build & sustain partnerships to strengthen farmers markets & the healthy food environment.

About speakers:

Susan Dobbins: Susan has been a part of Wildhorse Gardens and Market, Inc. for about 12 years, starting with the garden when it was the Mustang Kiwanis Community Garden.  Since that time, she has retired from the Oklahoma Insurance Department and the practice of law and now devotes much of her time, especially in the spring, summer, and fall, to the garden and its farmer’s market. She became a Master Gardener in 2016 (Canadian County).  She and her husband, Tuna, live in Mustang.

James Tyree: James Tyree is a health communications consultant at the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), where he works with community-based grantees. Tyree worked as a news and sports reporter for nearly 20 years before joining TSET in November 2011. He covered a variety of beats for newspapers in his native Wisconsin, Oregon, Illinois, Kansas City and locally at The Oklahoman, Norman Transcript and Edmond Sun. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A.-Journalism degree and is a former president of the OU Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s alumni association. Tyree is an avid rocker, big OU and Thunder fan, and a notorious punster – except during Lent.