Our Team
Bailey Whiffen
Bailey Whiffen recently joined our farm as our Farm School Educator. She completed her B.S at SUNY-ESF in Conservation Biology and her M.S.T at SUNY Oswego in Adolescent Education in Biology. Bailey worked on a variety of farms throughout Central NY until she landed herself in a role teaching Middle School Science in Syracuse City School District. She quickly realized she loved the living world and farming just as much as education and decided to make the jump to combine the two. Bailey is excited to bring her knowledge and passion to our Farm School and to help connect youth to the living world as well as their food.
Mackenzie Ray
Mackenzie Ray is a passionate agricultural science student at SUNY Morrisville, specializing in Education and Outreach. With years of hands-on experience in horse care, barn management, and animal rehabilitation, she brings a deep love for animals and farming to everything she does.
Mackenzie has taught riding lessons, managed the care of over 30 horses, and worked alongside veterinarians using advanced therapy tools, such as water treadmills and Magna-Wave therapy.
She is also certified in CPR, First Aid, and medication administration.
Scott Watkins
Scott Watkins is an instructor at OCM BOCES, teaching welding to student. More to come soon!
Dan Edmonds
Dan Edmonds is the Lead Survival Instructor and Founder of Ranger's Ridge. Dan started Ranger's Ridge to help individuals handle their own hardships and come to the aid of others with grace & kindness. Dan is an apprentice instructor under Joshua Enyart from GB2 (GRAYBEARDEDGREENBERET) and won Master Navigator Top Team. He is a Wilderness First Responder and committed to helping students gain confidence and real skills in the wilderness. Dan is a skilled archer, placing in the top 4 participants two years in a row at the Gander Mountain Compound Bow Archery Tournament. Since then, his focus has turned away from compound bows towards the harder challenge of traditional archery. Now he exclusively practices, hunts, and teaches only with recurves and longbows. Dan even takes it further as he learns to build his own bows off the landscape. His success at teaching these archery skills to others has created students that go on as talented and skilled archers themselves.
All of our teachers undergo extensive background checks from an independent Agency, including but not limited to CORI & SoRI checks.