Janelle Plummer
Janelle has been working on vegetable farms for almost ten years and is excited to explore the small beginnings of her own operation in Maine. Land access feels increasingly important to her as she searches for a parcel that allows her business to grow and thrive steadily for a long time. Some of her favorite […]
Jessica Tobon
Jessica Tobon (she/her) is a farmer, horticulturist, compost consultant, educator, and craft artist. She has 10 years of experience working at a plant nursery, a landscape design company, The New York Botanical Garden, and at farms in upstate New York. She enjoys learning about plant propagation and plans to establish a native plant nursery to […]
Elizabeth Guerra
Elizabeth Guerra is a Latina social justice activist and Queens native with over fifteen years of experience building community power through community organizing, volunteer engagement, and popular education at non-profits and unions throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Elizabeth has technical expertise in collective bargaining, multi-layered campaign development, women’s rights, power building, and reproductive, […]
Marisela Zariya Williams
Jermyn Shannon
For nearly two decades I have worked alongside Black farmers as a technology consultant, assisting them with marketing and recruitment, as well as business development. I have witnessed their challenges first-hand as the majority are over 60 and do not have a clear path to transition land and products. I started Futurists in Farming and […]
Will O’Meara
Will has been farming in New England since 2011 and has been involved with the New CT Farmer Alliance (NCTFA) and the National Young Farmers Coalition since 2013. He cut his teeth at farms and gardens in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and California before serving as Assistant Farm Manager at Waldingfield Farm in Washington, CT from 2017-2019. […]
Mayra Perez
I have a small farm named Maritza Farms in Salinas, California. I love agriculture and being able to share it with others.
Detra Danielle DShawn Iverson
As a wife and mother, I am always conscious of what’s going on or into my family’s bodies. As an herbalist I know that having access to fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, and the like play a pivotal role in wellness. For that reason, I cultivate 70% of my family’s food intake. I’ve shared the knowledge […]
Jane Kaminski
I’m a first-generation farmer who is better at administrative tasks than I am in the field. I co-own and operate John-Paul’s Farm Limited–a diversified vegetable farm–with my husband and sell direct-to-consumer mostly through our county farmer’s market. We like to produce things using methods that make us feel good with the aim that it’s also […]
Óscar Vital
My name Óscar Vital and I am a 1st generation Chicanx from East LA, California. To be a Farmer is to be a warrior, a healer, and inherently a cultivator of not only the land but of myself. I believe in the power of food as medicine, as a preventative method for disease prevention, and […]