Ann Bercher will be the National Grange Rep at the 2022 149th Maine State Grange Convention. Ann has been a Grange member for 22 years. She is a member of Sunbeam Grange #2 in Elk River, MN where she holds the office of Lecturer/Program Director. She is currently the State Grange of Minnesota President, having served since She has also held the offices of State Grange of Minnesota Lecturer and Pomona.
Ann served as a Communications Fellow at National Grange Conventions in 2018 and She is currently in her first year as National Grange Lecturer/Program Director. Ann attended Iowa State University and received a B.A. in Landscape Architecture. She worked for 25 years at the Oliver Hudson Kelley Farm in Elk River, MN as a garden and farm interpreter, Assistant Site Manager and Program Manager. She also attended LeCordon Bleu and is a classically trained chef. Ann is currently employed at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum as the Education Culinary Specialist. Outside of Grange and employment, Ann is a member of Plymouth Church in Minneapolis, an avid gardener, inquisitive chef, and in spare time designs and sews quilt tops, and occasionally plays her piano. She has three children (Chris, Ben and Mikaela) and 6 grandchildren (Finn, Theodore, Maverick, Josephina, Silas, and Leona.)