Connecting Farmers to Eaters and promoting Sustainable Organic Urban Living since 2005

2009 – 2010

Local Orbit & St. John’s Bread and Life

Forager & Market Manager

Launching September 2010

Local Orbit makes it easy for people to buy food directly from farmers and food producers in their communities.

Weeksville Heritage Center Farmers Market

Interim Market Manager / Outreach

Working to:

  • increase foot traffic through community outreach/collaboration
  • develop community recipe series
  • increase programming – cooking demos, healthy living workshops

Winter Sun Farms

NYC Coordinator / Social Media Strategist @wintersunfarms

  • Building social media presence
  • growing relationships with CSAs in NYC

FoodCulturist.com

Social Media Strategist

  • increasing social media presence
  • creating more engaging and dynamic blog
  • connecting Hot Grease listeners to other content

Bed-Stuy Farm Share

Core Member / Outreach / Logistics / @bedstuycsa

  • helped expand pickups to two days
  • helped secure new farmers/members
  • growing online presence
  • recipe development / newsletter

Bed-Stuy Food Council

Organizer / Delegate for Brooklyn Food Coalition

  • building awareness of community food projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant
  • working with Dept of Health to promote local food in Bed-Stuy bodegas
  • empowering residents through GRUB parties and CARROTMOBs

Growing Food & Justice For All Initiative

Social Media Communicator @gfji

2008

GrowNYC Greenmarket

EBT Market Manager for Ft. Greene, Harlem, & Bronx Boro Hall