Board of Directors

Lauren Washburn Hayman – President, Development Chair

Lauren Washburn Hayman has been involved at the Horn Farm Center since 2008 when she came looking for a way to reconnect with the land while living in a home with limited outdoor space.  Lauren has been a community gardener, a participant in the organization’s many wonderful programs and classes, and a graduate of the Ecological Gardener Training Program.

Lauren is an expert in sustainability and waste diversion. She helps state and local governments across the country reduce their waste and tackle litter and illegal dumping behaviors. At home, Lauren is an avid vegetable and native plant gardener. She is in the process of gradually converting her lawn in Dover Township into a native plant paradise to support her family, local wildlife, and eventually, a colony of honey bees!

Tom Warman – Vice President

Tom is a retired environmental consultant with a professional background in horticulture and landscaping. He spent his early years in Switzerland and Cincinnati OH and is a graduate of Gettysburg College.

Tom has always been interested in plants, having grown bonsai trees for several decades and consulting on wetlands before his retirement. He now spends his time playing guitar and repairing old electronics and musical instruments. Tom has served on many civic and nonprofit boards in the York area and is looking forward to his time on the HFC board.

Tom and his wife, Carolyn, live in Spring Garden Township. They have two grown children and three granddaughters.

Christine Keehner – Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair

Born and raised in New Hampshire, Christine has called the York, PA area home for the last 23 years. She attended Bentley University in Waltham, MA, attaining a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Master of Science in Taxation.  Christine has worked for public accounting firms and private companies throughout her career and currently specializes in individual and business tax at RKL LLP.

In addition to her professional pursuits, Christine likes to spend with her children, friends and dogs.  Her interest in gardening has led her to want to learn more about growing and preserving food.  

Motivated by her belief in the mission of the Farm to provide education and knowledge that allows others to learn to protect our resources, Christine is eager to contribute her skills and experience to the Horn Farm Center Board and is committed to helping the Farm reach its goals and grow into the future.

Ed Wilson-Secretary

Born and raised in Wrightsville and Hellam, Ed began his career studying anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College and the University of Michigan and working as a Regional Archaeologist for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. After returning to graduate school for a Ph.D. in Social Systems Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania, he became a faculty member at SUNY Buffalo, where he taught courses in systems thinking and research methods to urban planning students. He has also worked at the Pew Charitable Trusts, where he helped establish that organization’s Planning and Evaluation department, and at 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, where he served as Vice President of Research and Interim President. For most of the past 25 years, he has worked as an independent consultant, conducting program evaluation and applied research for foundations, non-profits, and academic institutions. His consulting assignments have spanned such fields as environmental conservation, land use planning, sustainable agriculture, smart growth, planetary health, and transdisciplinary science. The common thread uniting all of his work has been a focus on interactions between people and their natural and built environments.

With deep family roots in south-central Pennsylvania, Ed is passionate about promoting healthy environments and vibrant communities in this unique region. He was a leader in early efforts to protect the Horn Farm as part of a larger movement to conserve farmland and promote sound land use in Hellam Township.

David Freiberg – Nominating Committee Chairperson

David Freiberg’s lifelong interest in agriculture started in his early childhood years growing up playing and learning at his grandparent’s farm in Chester County. This interest was nurtured during adolescence as he worked in his parent’s garden and orchard.

David received his BA in Business Administration from Bowling Green University in 1976 and subsequently a MPIA in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978. During these college years David’s interest in environmental issues and food policies, especially in developing countries, continued to grow. After leaving Pittsburgh, David started his own business related to his other great interest: history. His agricultural enthusiasm persisted and he completed a one year course in biodynamics at the Sunbridge Institute in New York in 1999. He went on to receive an associate degree of biodynamic at Emerson College in Forest Row, UK in 2004.

He has a small homestead where he has been able to practice biodynamics during the past 25 years. He has grown a variety of fruits and vegetables and raised various livestock including a Jersey cow, sheep and chickens. David’s other passions include travel, gastronomy, history, beekeeping, hiking, and his family.

Cindy Pizziketti-Events Committee Chairperson

Cindy Pizziketti grew up on a pony farm in Chester County and moved to York around twenty years ago. Cindy earned her BSN at Jefferson University, and spent fifteen years as a nurse in pediatrics at The Bryn Mawr Hospital. Always dedicated to lifelong learning, her love of the land and drive to protect it led to her becoming a Master Watershed Steward with the Penn State Cooperative Extension. In 2021 she was awarded the Watershed Stewardship Award from the York County Conservation District and was the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Volunteer of the year.

Cindy is currently helping Horn Farm to transition several acres of farmland into a multi-functional riparian buffer. She has planted 100’s of trees and is leading a corp of Riparian Rangers that will steward these new trees into a forest. Educating children has been her favorite part of her 1000 hours of work as a Master Watershed Steward because they are curious and open to new things. She recently installed a pair of rain gardens at her home in Springettsbury, where she lives with her husband Rob and their beloved pit bull terrier, Nora.

Kelly Dearman

Kelly Dearman is an independent strategy consultant with 16 years of strategy development, planning process design/execution and facilitation experience working with Boards and leadership of organizations with annual revenues ranging from $3 billion to $240,000.  Although Kelly works across nonprofit industries, she has a personal passion for land preservation, land stewardship, conservation, biodiversity and regenerative agriculture.  In addition to serving on the Board of the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education, Kelly serves on the Board of the Farm and Natural Lands Trust of York County.

When not working or serving, she volunteers her time with her church, at her kids’ school and at First Fruit Farm, a nonprofit, Christian ministry dedicated to providing fresh food for the hungry.

Dave Yates

Born and raised in York, Pa., Dave Yates attended Thiel College with a major in psychology and double minors in art and geology. Yates began his career in the PHVAC trades in 1972 with F. W. Behler. After serving his apprenticeship and working up to Master Plumber status, Yates struck out on his own in 1979. In 1985, he purchased F.W. Behler Inc., a third-generation PHVAC firm. This company has won many awards for its work, and Yates, an award winner himself, was the first recipient of the international Carlson-Holohan Industry Award of Excellence. Yates was named one of the most influential contractors in plumbing, hydronic, and radiant industries in 2009 and again in 2014.

Besides running F.W. Behler Inc., writing articles for industry magazines and speaking at events, just recently at the AHR convention in Chicago, Yates is also one of the most experienced teachers in the hydronics industry. He has served as an adjunct professor and served on the Technical Advisory Board for the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. Yates taught an online radiant design course developed in partnership with the Radiant Professionals Alliance (RPA). Yates writes monthly columns for Plumbing & Mechanical, PM Engineer, and Supply House Times magazines and has written articles for Contractor Magazine, Green Mechanical Contractor, Radiant Living, Fine Home Building, and a handful of other trade magazines.

He is a past executive board member of the RPA, member of the Green Mechanical Council and served on the Radiant and Hydronics Council with ACCA. Yates currently helps to develop online training courses for mechanical contractors with Interplay Learning. Also serving as an expert witness in numerous jury trials. Yates served on the Central Market Board of directors for 14-years and served as president for 12-years. After reading about square foot gardening, Dave & Lois constructed six 4×4 raised beds where they grow vegetables every summer. No stranger to farming, Yates managed a 55-acre farm in the Brogue for several years, planted a 5-acre vineyard, and earned an associates degree in viticulture from Penn State.  

Renee L. P. Evans

Renee attended Millersville University where she studied Special Education and Psychology. After marrying fellow artist Rob Evans, she began a notecard business. Her notecard art depicts birds, butterflies, fish and other images

 of the natural world. Her collections have been exhibited at the North Museum of Nature & Science in Lancaster, PA and her notecards have been sold at Lancaster Museum of Art and natural history museums along the east coast.

Renee also co-founded Sugar Mountain Workshops, a music and art camp that emphasized the natural world.  As her children grew, she taught more advanced art classes and continued to tutor art and math until her children, Lucas and Quinn, went to college. Renee has served on the board of the York Art Association and still serves on their hospitality committee. She also served on advisory boards for the Columbia Creative Factory and the Historic Hellam Preserve.

Renee’s interest in organic food and gardening began in 1995 with a modest garden and a small cooperative store that she ran in her basement called JUST ORGANICS – a community resource before such foods became more readily available locally. She is thrilled to bring her experience and dedication to community service to the board of the Horn Farm Center as her connections with the organization are deep – going all the way back to the Pizza Patch Project and the Tomato Festival!

Carolyn (Carrie) Pugh

Carolyn, a York County native, brings a breadth of knowledge and experience to the Horn Farm Center board. Currently an attorney Bellomo & Associates, Carolyn has been in private practice since serving as the first judicial law clerk for the Honorable Joseph C. Adams in the York County Court of Common Pleas. She is experienced in family law, criminal defense, estate law, Social Security disability, bankruptcy, juvenile/school law, municipal law, and animal law.

Carolyn is passionate about animals. She obtained her undergraduate degree in animal science from Pennsylvania State University before she pursued her law degree at Dickinson School of Law. Carolyn also cares deeply about the York County community. Most recently, she was a Custody Conciliator and Court appointed Mediator for the County of York. She also served on the York County Parks Auxiliary Board and coordinated the York County High School Mock Trial Competition for several years. She is currently a member of the York County Bar Association and serves as the Editor of the York Legal Record.

Carolyn is very close to her large family – her parents, four brothers, three sisters-in-law, four nieces, and four nephews. She enjoys family gatherings and spending time with her menagerie of pets (her dog, Kip, her horse, Liam, and her three cats, Smoochie, Gus, and Bean). She loves to travel and spends several weeks a year at her family’s cabin on Moosehead Lake in Maine and motorcycle trips with her boyfriend, Aaron.

Anya Peters

As a lifelong resident of Pennsylvania, Anya Peters is deeply committed to ecological justice and care. Her passion for the natural world is reflected in her love of gardening, photography, and wildlife. A recent journey of self-discovery has led Anya to embrace and recognize the magic in the mundane. 

Anya has carved out a peaceful haven on her wee homestead nestled on Susquehannock Land on the banks of the mighty Susquehanna River. Stewarding the land alongside her husband and enjoying the company of their feisty daughter and two goofy dogs brings her immense joy and minimal frustration.

Philip Dunn

Phil Dunn was raised on a beef/crop farm in Huntingdon County that is still in the family. After graduating from Franklin & Marshall College , he spent 35 years employed by the Senate of Pennsylvania; retiring in 2019 as the Chief of Staff to the Senate Majority Whip. While in the Senate, Phil was involved extensively with state programs that pertained to agriculture and environmental protection. After leaving the Senate Phil worked tor Lancaster Farmland Trust in ag conservation outreach and then went on to become the Executive Director of the Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance.

Phil is a Master Watershed Steward, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Chiques Creek Watershed Alliance and the Greater Elizabethtown Area Recreation Services. Phil is also a member of the Lancaster Task Force to the Interfaith Partners to the Chesapeake. He is on the Legislative Affairs Committee of the PA Cattlemen’s Association. He served one term on the West Donegal Township Board of Supervisors and 2 terms on the township Planning Commission.

Beth Kern

Beth Kern is a lifelong York County resident with roots in farming and horticulture. She grew up on her family’s multi-generational beef and crop farm and is a past member of various York County 4-H clubs where she exhibited Black Angus cattle and other agricultural projects.   

Beth is currently a Shareholder at the CGA Law Firm where she provides legal services in the areas of  employment, municipal, business, and real estate law. She has a diverse background with over twelve years of professional experience in business and human resources management prior to practicing law.

Outside of work Beth enjoys traveling to Walt Disney World and spending time tending her backyard garden. Beth has recently renewed her passion for horticulture with the addition of a hobby greenhouse, starting her flower and vegetable plants from seed. Beth and her husband, Allen, reside in Manchester Township with their bernedoodles.