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Jason Ingle
Executive Director

Raised on an organic family farm and winery in New York's Finger Lakes region, Jason has long been driven to share with others the benefits of living close to the land and respecting the natural world. After more than 15 years in the finance industry, Jason rediscovered his roots by co-founding Greener Partners. He continues to balance time between the for-profit and not-for-profit realms, and he remains passionate about sustainable food initiatives and local food economies. In addition to his work for Greener Partners, Jason serves on the Boards of FarmPlate, a web-based community and marketplace for local foods and farmers; Bar Harbor Biotechnology, a leader in gene expression research; and the nonprofit Boards of Tyler Arboretum in Media, PA., and Spring Garden Pictures, a social causes non-profit film production organization based in Philadelphia. He is also the chief operating officer of a promising, but sometimes frustrating, ¼-acre backyard garden and organic, heritage-variety orchard.



Kristin Bone
Communications Coordinator

Kristin was first introduced to local organic farming when she visited Willow Creek Orchards in Collegeville, PA when she was 15. Shortly after discovering the farm she began working in the market and assisting with odds and ends around the orchard, continuing to work there for 6 years. Now she is returning to the farm with Greener Partners and is still as in love with organic fruits and veggies as she was the first day she found them. Kristin has a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, with a specialization in Photography & Graphic Design; on the weekends you can find her spending time with her family and their dog Samantha. Kristin can also be found around the farm snapping shots with her many cameras.



Jennifer Brodsky
Chief Operating Officer

Jennifer has been involved with sustainable agriculture and non-profit management in the Philadelphia area for more than a decade. Inspired by working on a farm in Ireland in 1999, Jennifer returned to Philadelphia and became the first volunteer at the Fair Food Projects farm-stand in Reading Terminal Market. Since then, she has worked in leadership roles at the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and Terrain at Styer's. Six years ago she left Philadelphia to follow her dream of working on an organic farm full time and spent several years as the Market and PYO manager at Willow Creek Orchards in Collegeville, PA. At Greener Partners, Jennifer combines her commitment to a thriving local food system, her entrepreneurial spirit and a deep passion for connecting community to food, farms and farmers. Jennifer also owns Rambler Farms in Zionsville, PA., where she lives with her boyfriend, Eric, and their two rescue dogs, Charlie and Kassie. She enjoys tending to her garlic fields, reading and taking annual trips to a lake and fly-fishing the creeks of the Pennsylvania countryside.



Rania Campbell-Cobb
Educator

Rania loves sharing the joys of exploring good food and the natural world with people of all ages. She has been gardening edibles as long as she can remember, but began working in organic agriculture and education in 2004. She was a farm apprentice and environmental educator on organic CSAs in Maine, farmed in New Zealand, did afterschool programming in North Carolina, and taught at Quaker institutions in both Maine and Philadelphia. She is passionate about increasing equitable access to good, local food through education and hands-on gardening projects. Her all time favorite food is a fresh green pepper.



Jessica Cummings
Americorps VISTA Outreach & Development Associate

Jessica is our first Americorps VISTA and has joined the Hillside Farm team to develop the Community Supported Share Program and build the capacity of Greener Partners to involve diverse communities in our CSA and education programs. A 2010 graduate of Oberlin College, Jessica majored in Environmental Studies and became inspired to fix our broken food system from taking a course her Sophomore year called "Community Food Systems." As a student, Jessica served as a garden educator with an elementary school in Oberlin, the Garden Coordinator for Oberlin's Student Cooperative, and spent most of her summers and winters working on CSA farms. After graduating, Jessica moved to Boston and worked with the Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition to lead Food Access Initiatives such as starting a community-owned food co-op, promoting farmers markets to SNAP users, and expanding community gardens. Jess is motivated by her goal of building community food security through connecting local farmers with lower-income neighborhoods.



Edyl Cunampio
Field Manager, The Longview Center for Agriculture

Born in eastern Panama, Edyl brings an extensive agricultural experience from 18 years of working on and helping to manage his family's farm. The traditional, non-mechanized and non-intensive agricultural practices of his indigenous Embera culture make Edyl's experiences and knowledge valuable to Greener Partners. A graduate of Greener Partner's two-year Apprentice Program, Edyl enjoys working with Community Supported Agriculture and being a part of the community it builds. He has a passion for helping people have access to fresh vegetables, educating people where their vegetables come from and teaching children about farming and what it means to have a healthy diet. Edyl speaks Spanish, English and Embera and lives in Exton with his wife, Kersten, and their new baby.



Erin DeCou
Farm Educator, Media & Chester Hub

Erin rediscovered a passion for agriculture during a VISTA year in Camden, New Jersey, where she helped expand the Camden Farmers Markets and started a youth nutrition education program, Junior Chefs.  She grew up in a family of farmers, often spending summers working on her father's peach farm in South Jersey.  Before coming to Greener Partners, Erin led a nonprofit mosaic arts center on Philadelphia's South Street, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, and worked on an organic coffee plantation in South India.  Erin lives in Philadelphia at the moment, though she considers herself a country girl at heart.



Rick Fonda
Production Manager, The Longview Center for Agriculture

Rick began farming in 2003, when he apprenticed with Amy Johnson at Red Hill Farm in Aston. He has held many jobs over the years, but he says growing good food for the community is the best so far. Rick has a B.A. in classics from Temple University, which has been a great asset to him in agriculture, as in life. Rick and his wife Mary reside in Media and have six cats.



Alison Forbes
Director of Internal Operations

Ali joined the Greener Partners team in April of 2010 to tackle our finance, administration, and Human Resources needs. She has worked in accounting for the past seven years and is thrilled to be counting beans for an organization that combines two of her interests: education and local organic farming. While comfortable in a desk and office setting, she loves any excuse to get out to our farms and hopes to spend more time there. When not at the office, Ali can be found chasing her two kids, along with her husband Will.



Sarah Groat
Education Garden Manager, The Longview Center for Agriculture

Sarah always knew she enjoyed working outdoors, but in the last five years she has found farming to really be her pathway. Her love of exploring and helping the environment at a young age led her to study environmental science and ecology at the University of Michigan and her work on a cherry orchard in northern Michigan led her to look at agriculture as her future. Sarah plans to make her contribution to the local food movement by helping to provide tasty, wholesome produce in the Education Garden at Longview Market and by sharing her knowledge of food and agriculture with the nearby communities.



Nathan Hasler-Brooks
Hillside Farm Co-Manager

Nathan started with Greener Partners when ground was broken at Hillside Farm in the spring of 2009. He spent the last two growing seasons at Hillside as an apprentice, and now co-manages the six-acre market garden expansion. An avid gardener who loves to cook and eat good food, he first became interested in farming through the works of author and poet Wendell Berry and a desire to work toward self-sufficiency. Nathan enjoys sharing recipes with others and giving out advice at the farmers' market on how to cook bok choy. He lives in Germantown with his wife and four other friends and relaxes at the end of the workday by cooking the basket of vegetables he brings home from the farm each night.



Amy Johnson
Director of Outreach

With more than 15 years experience in organic agriculture, Amy's passion for farming began in college when she took a food crops class and instantly fell in love with the idea of growing food. After several years of agricultural internships she started Red Hill Farm, a 120-member CSA in Aston, PA., where she worked as Farm Director, growing food and community for nearly eight years. As Director of Outreach for Greener Partners, Amy reaches out to the communities surrounding each farm hub to engage through workshops, community events and educational opportunities, including our agricultural apprentice program. Amy resides with her two daughters and husband in Media, PA, where you can usually find her in her backyard garden, hanging laundry with her chickens at her feet.



Meg MacCurtin
Education Director

Meg has more than 10 years of classroom experience as an art educator. She also has a long-standing passion for local, organic food, having joined Portland, Oregon's first urban CSA when it began in 1994. As the Director of Education for Greener Partners, Meg is able to combine her career-long work with youth, her passion for farm-to-fork eating and her love of the outdoors. She is focused on giving youth hands-on experiences with the food that grows on our farms, and she believes that these experiences are key to both our youth's wellbeing and the health of our planet. Meg lives with her husband and three children in Media, where she loves to cook up the harvest and "paint" with fabric.



Marcy Magness
Hillside Farm Co-Manager

Marcy's interest in growing vegetables dates back to the winter of 2007 when she was volunteering with a world hunger organization, Heifer International. The following spring, she started a farming internship at Red Hill Farm in Aston. After working for two seasons at a local CSA, she joined the Greener Partners team and says she wholly believes in Greener Partners' mission and vision. One of her desires is to connect and share knowledge of local healthy food with all whom cross her path. She is currently jointly responsible for Hillside Farm, including the CSA expansion and the New Market Garden.



Joanne McGeoch
Development Director

Joanne's affinity for nature was founded in her childhood backyard- writing stories while perched in her beloved dogwood tree. Since then, her favorite experiences have always been rooted in nature: from hiking in the Arizona desert, to the 2 summers in college she lived Telluride, Colorado creating art. Previously she spent 5 years as Development/ Public Relations Director of Habitat for Humanity in Delaware, where she witnessed the positive and profound impact a supportive community can have on families and the past 2 years at Tyler Arboretum, raising funds for environmental education programs for youth and conservation. She discovered Greener Partners encompassed a unique blend of her interests in food equity, youth education, and love of nature. She is inspired by the Slow Food Movement, and believes getting closer to the source of our food is the key to sustaining a viable future for our children, our community, and our planet. When she's not envisioning creative ways to raise money, she can be found creating some messes with her two children.



Mark Risso
Farm Outreach Manager, The Longview Center for Agriculture

Mark's interest in agriculture and the environment has its roots in the soils of Central Pennsylvania, where his family raised gardens and livestock for themselves, friends, and neighbors. Mark is a second generation woodworker, and spent seven years working as a carpenter and cabinetmaker before moving to Philadelphia where he combined his passion for engaging learners of all ages, and working to build sustainable neighborhoods by managing two youth-powered farms, and involving communities to transform local food systems. Mark feels that many of the deepest bonds we make happen around a shared love of food, and a farm is the perfect place to instill a love of work and sense of wonder in the natural world, and to grow healthy bodies and strong communities.



Emily Teel
Director of Public Programming, The Longview Center for Agriculture

Emily oversees operations of Longview's public programming including workshops, pick-your-own, the Longview CSA, and the Longview Market. She joined the Greener Partners team following a year living in Parma, Italy, where she completed a Master of Arts in Food Culture and Communications at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. She's happy to return to Southeast Pennsylvania where she has previously been a food-raiser for Philabundance, a manager of the Fair Food Farmstand in Reading Terminal Market, and a waiter of countless tables across Philadelphia. A 2011 Legacy Award Winner with the women's culinary organization Les Dames D'Escoffier International, she's passionate about food and committed to the idea that everyone deserves access to meals that are both nourishing and satisfying.



Laura Vernola
Director of Communications & Community Engagement

Laura joined the Greener Partners team in October of 2011; she is responsible for the marketing and PR outreach for our farms and communities across all advertising, promotional and social media platforms. Laura comes to Greener Partners from the Garces Restaurant Group where, with Iron Chef Jose Garces, she helped create Philadelphia’s newest restaurant empire and oversaw the marketing and promotion for 7 locations, among other Garces enterprises. Greener Partners’ mission of connecting communities though food, farm and education is a natural evolution of what she learned from Jose Garces and from running her own restaurant. At Greener Partners, she is excited about indulging her passion for local farm foods and sharing it with everybody.