Silas Bernardoni

Silas Bernardoni is a co-operator of Roller Coaster Farm and an operations consultant specializing in the
development and implementation of organizational strategies for organizations looking to transition
out of a start-up mentality toward operations. He is also an advocate for family farming, sustainable
agricultural practices, heritage genetics, preserving historic agricultural methodologies, empowering
societies through the use of technology, improving the quality and accessibility of education throughout
the world, and community scale renewable energy technologies.

Roller Coaster Farm is a family-owned-and-operated 400 acre farm located in the rolling hills of southwest Wisconsin’s beautiful Driftless Area. The Bernardoni family has continually raised animals on the farm for over 30 years and is currently being operated by multiple generations of the family. Roller Coaster Farm raises grass fed, grass finished Highland beef and Katahdin lambs as well as pastured Tamworth pork. Roller Coaster Farm is firmly committed to the utilization of heritage breeds and natural farming methods that promote the health of their animals, their land, and their consumers.

Silas has worked extensively with Paraguay Educa, a non-profit organization implementing a One Laptop Per Chid-themed project in Paraguay, to bring access to quality education to all Paraguayan children through the utilization of technology. His contributions to the organization
consisted of the development of an organizational structure and operational strategy designed to maintain Paraguay Educa’s cutting edge deployment methodologies while the organization expanded country-wide.

Family Farm Defenders: familyfarmers.org
EatWild.com: eatwild.com
GrassWorks: grassworks.org
One Laptop Per Child: laptop.org
Paraguay Educa: paraguayeduca.org