Black Soil Programs Include:

• Agritourism
• Youth Outreach
• Farmers Market
• Meal Prep
• AgCredit Food Demonstration Kitchen
• Community Partnerships
• Delivery, Curbside Pick Up, Community Pick Up Sites

Lexington native, Ashley C. Smith graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. She is the Co-Founder and COO of Black Soil. Smith has worked for a number of brands like Bluegrass Hospitality Group and Kentucky State University. She’s even earned an Emmy nomination for her voiceover work on KET’s Kentucky Life episode, ‘A Kentucky Christmas’ where she voiced the work of Kentucky native, writer and poet, Effie Waller Smith.

Co-founders Ashley C. Smith and Trevor Claiborn are particularly focused on youth outreach and inspiring the next generation of growers to carry the torch of Kentucky’s rich agricultural traditions. One way they’re doing so is by offering a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). A CSA is a mutually-beneficial operation for farmers and a community of individuals, where the costs of food production are shared in exchange for some of the farm’s harvest.