Title: Owner
Organization: Sugarbush Hollow LLC
State: New York
E-mail: cwinship@rochester.rr.com

Chuck Winship plays multiple roles in the learning community. He is an educator who works with two cooperators in Ontario county, NY. He is also a maple producer conducting an improved sugar maple trial on his own land in Monroe county, NY and he is one of the trainers.

Chuck's original cooperator is Gene Gillis. Gene is a semi-retired farmer who raises wheat, oats, corn, rye, red kidney beans, and hay. Chuck and Gene are collaborating on ginseng, goldenseal, and mushroom trials. Gene's ginseng and goldenseal trials are depicted below.

Chuck's second cooperator is a private forest owner and part time farmer, Jack Lauder, who is conducting an improved sugar maple trial. In addition to his regular job, Jack manages a farm that has been family owned for about 100 years, raising corn, oats, wheat, red kidney beans and Holstein heifers. At one time, the farm included a maple syrup operation, and when he retires, Jack plans to re-establish it.