Eliza has been living (and cooking and eating!) on MDI since 2006, and she opened Milk & Honey in Northeast Harbor in 2013. She lives with her family in Seal Cove.

Tasha has been in the food industry most of her life. She is a culinary graduate, and was the owner of Mother’s Kitchen in Bar Harbor that she sold in 2021.

You can find her now feeding the kids at Mount Desert Elementary School or moonlighting at Floret in Somesville. She is really happy to be a judge and support MDNA!

D has been writing about food and farming for nearly a decade, and recently took on the role of chef and community coordinator at Open Table MDI. She lives with her wife and two cats in Southwest Harbor. 

Chris Popper is WDEA's "Sports Guy!" He has been broadcasting MDI and Ellsworth Basketball games for the past 18 years and MDI Football for 17 years. He was awarded the Cadillac Award by the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce in November 2023.

In May 2020, he was a honorary inductee into the National Technical Honor Society by Hancock County Technical Center and in 2015 he received the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce President’s Award Winner for Sustained and Exceptional Service to the Community.