Who We Are

Building it, together.

NYFC is led by an Advisory Committee of farmers and farm service providers. In addition, our coalition building and policy is driven by the State Leadership Committee which includes representatives from 11 state coalitions; Farm Hack is led by a team of programmers, farmers and engineers; and our blog is written by young farmer reporters from across the nation.

Here is the growing list of people who are central to NYFC and the future of farming in the US:

NYFC Staff

	Lindsey Lusher Shute, Director Clermont, NY
	R. Wesley Hannah, Organizer and Communications wes[at]youngfarmers[dot]org Gardiner, NY
	Sophie Ackoff, Membership Development Coordinator sophie[at]youngfarmers[dot]org Middletown, CT
	Kate Greenberg, Organizer kate[at]youngfarmers[dot]org Durango, CO
	Eleanor Kane, Intern Dudley, MA

Advisory Committee, as of January 2012:

	William A. Powers, President Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society Darby Springs Farm Ceresco, Nebraska		William Powers is the executive director for the Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society. Along with his wife Crystal & son Aiden John Alden, they have a small diversified farm in the saline wetlands of Saunders County near Ceresco, Nebraska that features Guernsey dairy cows and heritage breed poultry. Darby Springs Farm is grass-based and focused on sustainable agriculture and holistic management principles. William currently serves as President of Slow Food Nebraska and on the board of directors for the Nebraska Cooperative Development Center.
	Tierney Creech, Vice President Washington Young Farmers’ Coalition Seattle, Washington
	Alex Bryan, Secretary Food Field Detroit, Michigan		Alex co-owns and manages a 4 acre mixed produce farm, Food Field, in the city of Detroit. In their second year of production Alex and his childhood friend, Noah, sell to local restaurants, manage a CSA, and sell at 3 farmers markets, including the famous Eastern Market. They have one 30×90 hoophouse, 115 mixed tree orchard, and are modifying a shipping container for a solar powered storage and living space. Alex’s day job is at the Greater Lansing Food Bank where he is starting an incubator/beginning farmer training program and farm, called Lansing Roots, with funding from the USDA’s Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program.
	Michelle Hughes, Treasurer New Farmer Development Project New York, New York		Michelle Hughes is the Director of GrowNYC’s New Farmer Development Project (NFDP) where she identifies, trains and supports immigrants with agricultural experience to establish their own economically and environmentally sustainable family farms. Since joining the project in 2004, she has supported the establishment of 19 immigrant- owned farms on over 300 acres by helping aspiring farmers with whole farm planning, land identification, marketing support and a microcredit loan fund. Prior to joining the NFDP Michelle co-managed a 3-acre organic vegetable CSA in New Jersey, worked with at-risk youth to establish a market garden in Newark, NJ, and worked with rural farmers in Bolivia to build greenhouses as a Peace Corps volunteer.
	Avery Anderson Quivira Coalition Sante Fe, New Mexico
	Tess Brown-Lavoie Little City Growers Cooperative Providence, Rhode Island
	Kelvin Graddick West Georgia Farmers Cooperative Hamilton, Georgia		Kelvin Graddick manages a Georgia-based farmers cooperative that seeks to reclaim and expand opportunities in food and economic security. As a farmer, he is working the same land that his family began growing on half a century ago.
	Benjamin Shute Hearty Roots Farm Clermont, New York		Ben Shute operates Hearty Roots Community Farm, a CSA that provides vegetables and eggs for about 550 families in the Hudson River Valley and New York City. The farm also produces 29,000 lb. of fresh vegetables a year for a group of five emergency food providers in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The farm is in its ninth season, currently managing 90 acres of land, with 20 in vegetables, a big jump from the 3/4 acre of rented land on which the farm was founded.
	Sean Stanton North Plain Farm Great Barrington, Massachusetts
	Adam Stofsky New Media Advocacy Project Valatie, New York

Bloggers:

Chris Tidmarsh

South Bend, IN

To come : State Leadership Committee, Farm Hack profiles

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