Board Members

Attorney at Law, Turks and Caicos Islands, (Inactive); Barrister and Solicitor, Alberta, Canada (Inactive); Self Employed – small business venture financing, real estate investing and consulting and directorial services to individuals, companies and funds; Director & Vice President – St. George’s Trust Company Limited in Bermuda; Attorney at Law McLean McNally, Turks and Caicos Islands, trust and estate and corporate law, director and legal counsel for trust company and securities brokerage; Legal Counsel – Trizec Properties Limited, negotiation and drafting commercial leases for office and retail tenants.

Student-at-Law – Bennett Jones, Calgary, studied and worked under partners focusing primarily on commercial, security, estate planning; Business Systems Analyst – EPS Software Consultants Ltd., Toronto, development and maintenance of the financial planning system.

Legal Education Society of Alberta, Canada Bar Admission Courses; Dalhousie University Bachelor of Laws 1991/93; Saint Mary’s University – Bachelor of Commerce, 1986/89

Volunteer at Kings College Panamá S.A.; Former Member of the Halifax Club; Former Director and Secretary of the Bermuda Crimestoppers Committee; Former member of the Bermuda Association of Licensed Trustees; Former member of Rotary International; Former member of the Law and Order Committee of the Turks and Caicos Islands; Former Business Basics Instructor with Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta

Snorkeling; Swimming; Mountain Biking; Canoeing; Hiking; Downhill Skiing; Cooking; Painting; Reading; and Curling.

Keith Rudderham, Lt.-Col., is a Point Edward, Cape Breton farmer and Commanding Officer of the Cape Breton Highlanders. He is married to Lori and they have three children, Cameron, Ian, and Emily. He graduated from Royal Military College with Bachelor of Arts Honours Economics and Commerce in 1992, and Master of Arts in Defence Studies in 2009, and holds the Canadian Institute of Financial Planning CPF designation.

He brings to the Board: Public Service Experience, Management skills, Community Leadership, Public Budget Management. He is a Problem Solver, Consensus Builder, Team Builder, Logistics Expert, Employee Motivator, Public Speaker, Trainer and Mentor.

He is Vice President of the Cape Breton Richmond Federation of Agriculture, and was Ex-Officio Board Member of the Petawawa Centennial Family Health Centre Board of Directors, Board Member of the Algonquin College Capital Fundraising Foundation responsible to raise money for the construction of a new College Campus.

Lt.-Col. Rudderham deployed to Kosovo in 1999, to Kabul, Afghanistan in 2003-2004 where he assumed the duties of officer commanding camp services in Camp Julien. In 2007 he deployed to Kandahar as part of the Operational Mentor and Liaison Team responsible for the training of the Afghanistan National Army. His military career has also seen him serve as base commander of CFB Petawawa from 2009-2011, before returning to Nova Scotia in 2011 to take on the position of commanding officer of 5 Division Headquarters. He has also been the commanding officer of 33 Field Ambulance in Halifax since April 2014.

I am interested in the work of FarmWorks based on my personal experience and a strong belief that agriculture as a historical foundation to our Nova Scotia economy can and should be integral to our economic future. FarmWorks provides an innovative model to grow all aspects of an agricultural economy, is uniquely Nova Scotian, a model of a cooperative collaborative community.

I grew up in the Annapolis Valley, an immigrant, the daughter of a landscaper, nurseryman, and small scale produce farmer. My Uncles were dairy and pork producers. After gaining a diploma in Physiotherapist from Dalhousie University in the early 1970’s I worked briefly in Nova Scotia before heading to Alberta. During my almost 40 years in Alberta I returned first to the University of Alberta to earn a Bachelors of Physiotherapist and then to the University of Calgary for a Masters of Business Administration. My professional career was in Health Care. In 2009 I retired from Alberta Health Services where my last role was as Director of Clinical Support Services in the Calgary Region managing an array of clinical services, a staff of over 1,000 and an annual budget of almost $20M.

On retirement my husband and I returned to Berwick in the Annapolis Valley. I have taken up gardening once again and volunteer with a number of organizations: the Western Kings Community Health Board- current Chair, the Berwick Community Garden Group – Vice-Chair, Kings Senior Safety Society – Treasurer, CAPPSCA (Community Alcohol Project – Partners Shifting the Culture of Alcohol) – Recording Secretary, and Kingston/Greenwood Mental Health Association – Treasurer.

I want to see our communities grow, prosper and be healthy and believe FarmWorks has a role in that vision.

Educator, Friends of Agriculture

FarmWorks is for me one way of helping preserve what I have grown to love about Nova Scotia. I came to Wolfville, attracted by the warm, community minded people, plus access to the fruits and vegetables of the famed Annapolis Valley.

Always concerned by nutrition and my personal and family’s health and well-being I delighted in the possibility of having access to fresh local produce from farm markets and road side stands.

However, I came to understand that the supply of this fresh produce, local meat, jams, jellies and other foodstuffs is threatened by many factors not the least of which is the lack of farmers.

Agriculture in Nova Scotia is currently unsustainable. Something needs to be done and the beauty of FarmWorks is that through it each of us can do our part by investing in our community.

Ann Anderson