Farm Owner

Administrative Manager & Co-CSA Manager

Communications Director & Co-CSA Manager

Wholesale & Farm-to-Institution Manager

Bookkeeper

Co-Warehouse Manager

Logistics Manager

Farm Manager

Member Comms Rep & Farmer

Projects & Land Access Manager

Co-Warehouse Manager

Executive Director & Farm Owner

Farm Owner

Amy is a lawyer, strategist, advocate and non-profit leader with more than two decades fighting  for greater equity as a public defender, in public policy and implementing proven strategies to address policies and issues harming the poorest and most marginalized among us. Having been raised in the mountains of Southwest Virginia and with deep roots to the Catskills and the town of Hamden where her father grew up on a dairy farm, Amy and her husband Andrew bought and re-opened the Hamden General Store in May of 2021. When not in Delaware County, Amy resides in NYC with her husband and two children. Amy is currently the Director of Innovation and Strategic Initiatives at The Bronx Defenders, providing strategic advice and leadership to the organization in order to maximize impact, increase support, and elevate the innovative justice work of the organization.

Bari is a young farmer, small business owner, community organizer, advocate, educator and lifetime student. Bari is a member of National Young Farmers Coalition and is the Women's Affinity Representative of the organization's Federal Policy Committee. Additionally, Bari is the Farmer Representative on Northeast SARE's Executive Committee and has served on New England Grassroots Environmental Fund's Grantmaking Committee. Bari is also on the Board of Directors of Unadilla Community Farm and previously of the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute. Currently, Bari works with Providence Farm Collective and Cornell Cooperative Extension/TasteNY while her ecological, human scale farm, Healing Poem Farm, grows with the support of her partner, Sean, family and friends.

Diane Frances is the owner of La Basse Cour Farm, a small family farm in the ancestral land of the Haudenosaunee people at the headwaters of the Delaware River practicing natural methods in harmony with nature. She is also the Vice President of the Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve, and a Board Member of Heart of the Catskills Humane Society.

Dr. Julian L. Watkins identifies as a queer multi-ethnic Black intellectual and healer, who lives on Manhattan’s lower east side. He has deep familial roots in North America and Latin America. Dr. Watkins finds strength in these multiple marginalized identities and brings an intersectional world view, rich diasporic culture, and healing traditions to his work. Dr. Watkins is a partner at BEVERLY’S, a lower Manhattan based art gallery and bar. He is also a Culture of Health Leader, part of a national leadership program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A student of social movements and the Black liberatory tradition, he believes radical love is essential to building a new culture of health, for community recovery efforts and collective healing. He created the People’s Project as an open invitation for collaboration and engagement. The mission of the People’s project is to engage in a form of deep medicine- to unlearn colonial mindsets, strengthen connections to each other and the natural world, and build community resilience through thoughtful dialogue, the use of emergent strategies and narrative power as we collectively imagine alternative solutions and build new futures.

Lisa Cheng Smith is the founder of Yun Hai, a New York City-based importer and distributor of artisanal Taiwanese foods and culinary products. Since its founding in 2018, Yun Hai has stood for Taiwan's sovereignty by illuminating its traditional and emerging foodways.

Rebecca Morgan has spent her career between international human rights projects, farming, and food system development work. Her international work included consulting with Human Rights Watch in Kosovo and with the United Nations Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Guatemala. In food system work she led the National Immigrant and Refugee Farmer Initiative for Heifer International’s USA Country Program prior to being the executive director for the Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship in New York State. Rebecca has been growing food her whole life and currently lives in Upstate New York.

Sheryll Durrant is an urban farmer, educator, and food justice advocate. She is the Food and Agriculture Coordinator for NY New Roots Program, of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and has been the Resident Garden Manager at Kelly Street Garden since 2016. Her work has included developing community-based urban agriculture projects, and providing expertise and technical assistance for gardens within supportive housing developments. She currently serves as Board President for Just Food and is the New York City Farm Service Agency Urban County Committee Chairperson. Sheryll has led workshops and spoken on issues related to urban agriculture for many key organizations, and was part of the 2019-2020 HEAL School of Political Leadership. As a former Design Trust fellow for the Farming Concrete project, she is now responsible for communications and outreach for the data collection platform that helps urban farmers and gardeners measure their impact. Previously, Sheryll spent over 20 years in corporate and institutional marketing.

​​Vic Lee is a lifelong New Yorker, a proud product of NYC's public schools and CUNY, and the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Welcome to Chinatown, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Manhattan's Chinatown through economic resilience and cultural empowerment. In her free time, Vic enjoys afternoons with her Andy (her German Shepherd), recreating Claire Saffitz recipes, and exploring succession planning initiatives.

Yuka C. Honda is a Japanese composer/musician and producer residing in New York City. She is best known for the band Cibo Matto, which she co-founded with Miho Hatori in 1994 and in which Honda created a unique one-man band sound by triggering samples “live.” She has always been supportive of hyper-local food systems.