Board of Directors

Debra Tyler is founding mother and now Director of Motherhouse, Inc. She is also the chief cow-hand at Local Farm, a small raw milk dairy in Cornwall Bridge, CT.

Margaret Hopkins is Debra’s daughter and right-hand (wo)man, both on the farm and at many Motherhouse functions.

Vicki Harkness has hand fed many of the rescued animals she and her family keep. She and her husband have a company, EBM Services, designing and building energy systems for homes and businesses with an emphasis on renewable energy. She keeps her hands busy working to reduce their client’s environmental footprint.

Motherhouse President, Nita Colgate is always available to lend a hand with the Motherhouse Bookshelf in the Cornwall Free Library’s Children’s Room.

Heidi Lindberg came to a Motherhouse OSLSS workshop and felt like she had finally come home. It’s only natural to want to help out at home, so she got involved. These days she handles finances for Motherhouse while running her Animal Care Service form her home in Windsor, CT.

Brett Figlewski grew up in the Litchfield Hills and remains        enamored of their gentle beauty.  He has always had a poet’s heart & desires to interpret signs of seemingly ordinary grace.  Brett is an attorney with Sanctuary for Families, Center for Battered Women’s  Legal Services, in New York City, and lives in the heart of Hitchcock Corners. He likes to kidd around.

Nancy Wolson-Moche has her hands full with a new baby girl. Nancy also has a nourishment counseling practice based in New York and Cornwall, CT. She is our secretary.

Watercolorist and craftswoman, Jean Tyler, moved from Wisconsin to Connecticut in 2009 to be nearer her daughter and grand-daughter. Now as our Vice President, she does a handsome job maintaining our scrapbook, and offering old-style common sense and wisdom.