Karl Schatz Email & Phone Number

Maine, United States

Expanding upon the work begun in the Maine Community Cookbooks, Community Plate is dedicated to facilitating connection and building community through a common language of food, shared food stories and recipes, and the preservation of family food histories. Our first initiative is a statewide series of in person community events called Story Sharing Suppers. These free public events bring people together in a traditional potluck supper with a twist: each attendee brings a dish, a recipe, and a story to share about what they brought. Over the course of the meal, led by an MC, and structured around story prompts, participants are encouraged to share stories and make connections. During coffee and dessert, practiced storytellers entertain guests with tales they’ve prepared in advance. In the weeks following the meal, each attendee receives a mini cookbook filled with recipes and stories for the dishes that were brought to the event to commemorate the evening and the community created.

Gray, Maine

Ten Apple Farm, our diversified homestead and agritourism business in Gray, is a popular destination for families, individuals, or small corporate groups looking for an opportunity to experience life on a farm, spend a few hours in the outdoors with our goats, or create a more meaningful relationship to where their food comes from. Recognized by both local media outlets and national publications, our farm’s mission is education, recreation, and hospitality, on a small and very personal scale. Every week, we open up our home and farm to visitors to inspire people to believe that living agriculturally—on whatever scale they can do it—is accessible, desirable, and valuable. Even after more than a decade of leading our goat hikes, I never tire of the joy and lightening of spirit felt by our guests as they make a connection with the animals, or the farm and woods around them. • Partner in popular agritourism business with a focus on agricultural education, outdoor recreation, and hospitality. • Develop and lead educational and recreational outdoor and agricultural programming.• Coordinate business website, social media efforts, publicity, email list and newsletter.• Represent business in local, national, and international media appearances.• Lecture about the goat industry, food, homesteading, and rural living at universities, conventions, conferences, libraries, fairs, and other venues.

Portland, Maine Area

As Mainers, if there is one thing that brings us all together, it's food. Whether we’re teaching our kids to cook family recipes, or gathered together and sharing them at the table, we know that our food traditions bring us together as a community. In 2020, as part of Maine’s Bicentennial celebration, we envisioned, funded, edited, and published The Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook, an award-winning collection of family recipes, stories, and scholarly essays, from all 16 counties, contributed by Maine families together with well-known Maine personalities, politicians, writers, and chefs. Between the pages of heartfelt family stories and recipes are essays addressing food insecurity and inequity, Native food sovereignty, and Maine’s difficult past, but hopeful future, when it comes to issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion in our local food system. $2 from every cookbook sold is distributed to organizations fighting hunger in Maine. Leading the project, I developed partnerships and relationships across the state with governmental agencies, local businesses, media outlets, and non-profit organizations. The Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook received extensive local and national press, critical acclaim, and sold out numerous printings. In 2021, the popular and critical success of the first cookbook fueled the creation of a sequel, Maine Community Cookbook, Volume 2, published in July 2022. Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook is in its fifth printing with more than 13,000 books in print, and more than $20,000 distributed to hunger relief organizations in Maine.The cookbooks also led to the creation of the podcast “Cooking is Community,” which I produce, edit, and co-host.

Portland, Maine Area

For fifteen years I shepherded Aurora Photos, a small but highly regarded international photo agency specializing in outdoor adventure, lifestyle & sports, travel, and nature photography. Aurora was the world's premier source for the widest range and highest quality outdoor and adventure imagery. My ability to take on wide-ranging roles within the company and understand how different departments connect and collaborate to work towards a common goal, helped me lead and guide the business on a daily basis, executing long-term strategic plans and seeing the company through many major transitions. • Oversaw daily operations and implementation of long term strategic plans for international outdoor adventure and outdoor lifestyle photographic agency, representing more than 600,000 images from more than 800 photographers and 50 international partners.• Managed all aspects of agency business including production, sales, marketing, partnerships, IT, legal, contracts, human resources, and bookkeeping, and ensured that all departments were operating properly, efficiently, and collaboratively.• Design and maintain internal systems for customer relationship management, sales and licensing management, royalty reporting, asset management, invoicing, and financial reporting.• Represent agency at national and international conferences• Build and maintain strategic relationships with partner agencies• Collaborated with agency ownership to plan strategies for company growth, and oversaw implementation of those strategies at all levels.

Many people dream of leaving the workday world for a life of simplicity and freedom, and Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz did just that. Feeling like something was missing from their city lives, the couple began to dream of an existence that was closer to the land and became captivated by the idea of themselves as... goat farmers. Realizing that they knew little about goats, and even less about farming, they gave themselves a year to explore the world of goats and decide if that was where they belonged. In THE YEAR OF THE GOAT, the reader can jump in the "goat mobile" and follow their adventures as they ditch their big-city lifestyle to trek across forty-three states in search of greener pastures and the perfect goat cheese. Part food memoir and part picaresque travel narrative, THE YEAR OF THE GOAT marries the author's twin obsessions with food and all things goat and tells the story of one couple's fascinating journey.

Oversaw all photography for Time.com, the website of Time Magazine, as well as Life.com, the website for Life Magazine. • Directed and managed all aspects and all uses of photography for TIME.com. • Managed web site's budget for photography, established online usage policies and negotiated rights and rates with photographers and agencies. • Won national awards for coverage of September 11 attacks, AIDS in Africa, children dealing with HIV/AIDS in America, post-Soviet Eastern Europe, the Palestinians, famine in Afghanistan, the Anniversary of the Lewis & Clark Trail, and Clinton's last days in office.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Produced and designed interactive media for national clients such as ABC Television, The Associated Press, and The Mormon Church.• Won national awards for communication design for interactive CD-ROM "150 Years of Mormon Pioneers", Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher Web Site, and ABC 1996-1997 Fall Preview CD-ROM.

Ma, Communications, Focus In Photography / Photo Editing / Multimedia / Digital Design

Ba, Soviet & Eastern European Studies