While organic farming groups are moving an arm's length from President Donald Trump's views, from immigration to an agriculture secretary nominee, Jim Riddle is leaning in to the new administration with a corn-huskers' handshake. 

Riddle, a 60-year-old who grew up on an Iowa farm and now raises berries in Minnesota, says there's an unclaimed common ground between organics and conservatives.

His own perspective is certified organic. For 20 years he was an organic inspector, one of those folks who show up at least once a year to determine if certified farms really do merit the federally approved organic label by avoiding harmful pesticides and genetically modified seeds, among many other strictures.

After co-founding a farmers market, he served five years on the National Organic Standards Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Since then he has been appointed chair of Minnesota's organic advisory board. This weekend he comes to Dayton as a keynote speaker at the 38th annual conference of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association. He'll talk 3:45 p.m. Friday at the Dayton Convention Center. More information online.