Catherine Barnes Email & Phone Number

Hector, Ny

Created, owned, managed and grew a small, successful agritourism business located on an award-winning wine trail in the Finger Lakes Region of New York.● Managed daily operations for 3 farm stays which included guest relations, volunteers, staff, reservation management, communications and maintenance of the property. We hosted hundreds of guests visiting from all over the world during the 8 years we offered accommodation.● Managed an extremely busy seasonal farm stand located on the property for direct to consumer and wholesale sales (restaurant and producers). The farm stand featured products from over 50 area farmers and producers, purchasing directly from area farms and regularly at regional produce auctions.● Designed, built, managed and operated an USDA licensed commercial kitchen on site.● Initiated and thoughtfully grew relationships with area farmers, producers and business owners, building trust and increasing sales over nearly 20 years in operation.

Schuyler County, New York, United States

● Worked with a small team to develop, coordinate, market and implement 100’s of agriculture, environment, natural resource, horticulture and agritourism workshops and events (for consumers, businesses and B2B) within the county and the region. Designed, collected and analyzed program, grant and evaluation data.● Managed the association and regional communication and marketing efforts, with a focus in small business, agriculture, local food and agritourism communications. Including the association website, blog, 12 social media accounts and a regional bi-weekly agriculture e-news.● Worked with area farmers individually and via workshops to determine the best agritourismpractices for their farm and assisted in ensuring they were visitor ready.● Developed and grew relationships with area agencies, businesses and community members to strengthen our network and outreach capabilities.● Led and worked on teams for dozens of fundraising initiatives. Including mailing campaigns,online campaigns, galas, 5k runs and auctions, etc…● Worked with small teams (within the office, other agencies and area businesses) to organize and implement three countywide farm tours highlighting a dozen farmers. We organized and hosted numerous plant sales and farmers markets featuring dozens of area growers. Assisted with a three-day Silvopasturing conference drawing hundreds of participants from across the country.● Worked with and provided supervision to Cornell University CALS summer interns.● Worked with a regional team and provided input on design, collected data, input data, maintained and calibrated regional buy local site buylocalfoodny.org and agritourism sitefingerlakesfarmcountry.com from their formation

Montour Falls, New York, United States

Administrative/Program Assistant to a newly formed county-wide land use team (county planner, natural resource, recycling and agriculture educators). Developed and implemented team strategies for outreach and collaboration within the team, the community and other county agencies. Assisted with planning and coordination of educational workshops and events.Designed and maintained several effective extension websites, blogs, e-news and social media accounts.

Hector, Ny

Negotiated, generated and managed contracts while managing prospective and current clients,ensuring strong, lasting relationships.● Generated leads by networking, cold calling and research.● Responsible for effectively advertising property listings in numerous marketing mediums, including newspaper, magazines, email, radio, flyers and web.● Worked as an office manager for the companies 10 Realtors and vacation rental specialists where I managed all client folders, data entry in a multiple listing system and staff communications.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Management And Economics

Recreation And Leisure Management

Leisure Services