Steven Bond

In the formative years, Bond regularly visited his great-grandparent’s subsistence farm in Wister Oklahoma developing a passion for all things nature and farming. Undergraduate at SWOSU, where he received a double major in Biology and Environmental Chemistry, was subtended with research in the field of Biochemistry and Entomology. Graduate studies at OSU began in the Botany but were redirected towards Biosystems Agricultural Engineering yielding a M.S. in the field of Environmental Science with a specialty in Watershed Resource Management. In 2008 he began working for the Chickasaw Nation as their Ethnobotanist. There, he formed the Ecological Resources and Sustainability Program. In 2011 Steven began working with Intertribal Agriculture Council providing technical assistance to all the tribes in Utah and Arizona while maintaining work as an Ethnobotanist. Spring 2013, he returned to Oklahoma to work the Eastern Oklahoma Region as well as tends to specialty crop projects throughout the United States.