• Own and manage a two-acre diversified fruit, herb, and vegetable farm growing around 90 different types of crops.• Growing methods are sustainable and regenerative.• Produce is sold via Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscriptions; directly to local restaurants; and occasionally via a pop-up farm stand.• Also grow native plants in a greenhouse for retail sales beginning in 2025.

• Assist with proposing plans, policies and programs addressing the physical development and planning of Oronoco Township. • Advise Oronoco Township on a variety of zoning ordinance and land development manual procedures.

• Increased access to high-impact experiential and research opportunities that help Environmental Studies students explore sustainability through cultural, economic, and natural lenses. • Strategically developed community-university partnerships with non-profit organizations, businesses, and government agencies working in the sustainability field.

Worked on a grant project aimed at Expanding Women Farmer Use of the USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) Programs, specifically those related to certain conservation initiatives.

• Designed and managed evaluation study of the Baltimore Food & Faith Project (BFFP), including IRB application, creating survey and interview instruments, analyzing and compiling data into a final report.• Assisting new BFFP director with transition after my departure and providing general advice as needed.• Created supplementary teaching materials (e.g., PowerPoint presentations and exams) for use with a food systems textbook edited by CLF staff.• Blogged for the LivableFuture blog about farming in Minnesota.

• Development, coordination, and maintenance of the Baltimore Food & Faith Project that partners with faith communities, schools, emergency food service providers, local governmental, farmers, and other academic institutions to raise awareness about food system issues through educational outreach and the creation of hands-on activities aimed at building a more sustainable, just, and healthy food system.• Education of food system issues to a diverse audience through conference, course and community presentations, a quarterly newsletter, web publications, social networking outlets, etc. • Administered the Garden Grants program which awards grants to congregations and religious schools to help them build and maintain food gardens.• Secured additional grant monies from local foundations for programmatic activities via grant writing and relationship building.• Designed and created resources for faith communities (e.g., "Growing Faith with Food Summer Camp" curriculum for children, and a congregational food audit, "The Good Food Toolkit: A Food Sustainability and Justice Evaluation and Planning Guide for Faith Communities").• Partnered with emergency food service providers to implement the Healthy Monday program and to increase their capacity to incorporate fresh produce gleaned from a local farmers’ market into its meals. • Piloted a farm stand over two years with a church in a low-income neighborhood in Baltimore to test a different model for making fresh produce available to a community that lacks healthy food.• Partnered with the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies to develop and implement two six-part text study series, bringing together faith community leaders and theologians with scientists, public health experts, economists, farmers, healthy school food advocates, county planners, etc. to identify ways to improve the food system.• Supervision of graduate and undergraduate student research assistants

• Outreach, planning and coordination of three public climate change convenings to be held in southeast Minnesota in the fall of 2015, in partnership with Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy• Acting as a liaison between the RSDP and community organizations who are pursuing various sustainable development projects, particularly those related to regional food systems work