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Amanda Wong began working with Star Route Farm in Delaware county in 2017 and joined as a co-owner in 2021. She loves being dedicated to the cultivation of land -  watching plants grow slowly, eating a radish plucked from the ground,  digging her hands into soil, being dirty, cooking farm meals, and access to fresh nutrient dense produce. She seeks to continually learn with farmers, and experiment with growing techniques and varieties. 

As a product of the Chinese diaspora, she feels it  is crucial to make the organic farming world more accessible to communities of color through mutual aid work. She deeply envisions the farm, its knowledge, privileges and crop distribution to be in solidarity with the movement to create a more just, connected, non-extractive food system for the farmers, consumers, cooks, community organizers, and the environment. She  imagines  a worldview in which Earth is not just an extractable resource, food is not a commodity, and partnership replaces exploitation.

She sees working with Catskills Agrarian Alliance as an  opportunity to intimately connect with a community of farmers who are critically and actively building a BIPOC led food system against our industrialized, segregated, dominator model of society.

Amy is a lawyer, strategist, advocate and non-profit leader with more than two decades fighting  for greater equity as a public defender, in public policy and implementing proven strategies to address policies and issues harming the poorest and most marginalized among us.  Having been raised in the mountains of Southwest Virginia and with deep roots to the Catskills and the town of Hamden where her father grew up on a dairy farm, Amy and her husband Andrew bought and re-opened the Hamden General Store in May of 2021.  When not in Delaware County, Amy resides in NYC with her husband and two children.  Amy is currently the Director of Innovation and Strategic Initiatives at The Bronx Defenders, providing strategic advice and leadership to the organization in order to maximize impact, increase support, and elevate the innovative justice work of the organization.  Previously, Amy was the Deputy Director of the National Network for Safe Communities and the Deputy Director at The Center for An Urban Future. Previously, Amy was an Equal Justice Works fellow and staff attorney at Bronx Defenders, a pro se law clerk for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and a litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers.  Amy holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Bari is a young farmer, small business owner, community organizer, advocate, educator and lifetime student. At SUNY Geneseo, Bari studied Philosophy and Environmental Studies with a focus on agricultural ethics. There, she co-founded the Student Coalition for Migrant Workers and participated in grassroots organizing for farmworker rights.

Learning from mentors, Bari developed a deep passion for and knowledge of organics and permaculture at Heartstone Organic Farm (Dansville, NY), A Way of Life Farm (Bostic, NC) and Frost Valley YMCA Farm (Claryville, NY). Through the Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture's (MESA) Applied Agroecology course, Bari learned about traditional, indigenous and peasant farming systems. She also developed a knowledge of local food procurement and preparation by working part-time as a prep cook at the Neversink General Store (Claryville, NY) and on the Early Bird Cookery (Callicoon, NY) catering team.

Bari is a member of National Young Farmers Coalition and is the Women's Affinity Representative of the organization's Federal Policy Committee. Additionally, Bari is the Farmer Representative on Northeast SARE's Executive Committee and has served on New England Grassroots Environmental Fund's Grantmaking Committee. Bari is also on the Board of Directors of Unadilla Community Farm and previously of the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute.

Currently, Bari works with Providence Farm Collective and Cornell Cooperative Extension/TasteNY while her ecological, human scale farm, Healing Poem Farm, grows with the support of her partner, Sean, family and friends.

Jessica Fujan brings more than 10 years of experience as an organizer and a lobbyist for environmental justice and food sovereignty. Her work began with Brigadas de Paz, advocating for indigenous communities demanding agrarian reform in Guatemala, and program evaluation of the UN World Food Program's projects in Makwanpur, Nepal. Jessica has organized for Affordable Housing in Chicago as the Senior Organizer at Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp. and for equitable policy for farmers and rural people at Food & Water Watch, in her role as Midwest Region Director. She is currently the Legislative Advocate for the largest and fastest growing Nurses Union in the country, where her coalition leadership has won a transfer of more than $50 million dollars from the carceral system to public health programming. A consultant for Solar Energy Industries association and the Sierra Club, Jessica brings strategic analysis and passion for the win to every team she joins. She regularly mentor's young professionals in environmental justice, labor, and organizing capacities. She is a Spiritual Ecology Fellow with the Kalliopeia Foundation, an experienced fundraiser, and obsessed cyclist. She would love it if you called her.

Dr. Julian L. Watkins identifies as a queer multi-ethnic Black intellectual and healer, who lives on Manhattan’s lower east side. He has deep familial roots in North America and Latin America. Dr. Watkins finds strength in these multiple marginalized identities and brings an intersectional world view, rich diasporic culture, and healing traditions to his work.

He is an Internal Medicine trained physician and public health practitioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He serves as a Health Equity Advisor in the agency’s Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness, supporting health equity efforts across the city and providing strategic support for emergent public health responses. He works to empower communities across the five boroughs through creative partnership building, honest discussion and information sharing on community health, health justice, recovery, and the ongoing COVID pandemic.  

Outside of the Health Department Dr. Watkins is a partner at BEVERLY’S, a lower Manhattan based art gallery and bar. He is also a Culture of Health Leader, part of a national leadership program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A student of social movements and the Black liberatory tradition, he believes radical love is essential to building a new culture of health, for community recovery efforts and collective healing. He’s chosen to move through the world with an ethos of love as an act of resistance in a culture so loveless. He created the People’s Project as an open invitation for collaboration and engagement. The mission of the People’s project is to engage in a form of deep medicine- to unlearn colonial mindsets, strengthen connections to each other and the natural world, and build community resilience through thoughtful dialogue, the use of emergent strategies and narrative power as we collectively imagine alternative solutions and build new futures.

láwû makuriye’nte (it/its) remembers wholeness from dismembered flesh and mutates as cross-pollinating perennial terratoids. it intertwines glitch rage webs with corroded resonance and regenerate forsaken spores across planet earth with their immersive biomes. it experiment with interactive mixed-reality film and decolonial regeneration as its voices, movement, and sculptures simulate a kapampangan experimental terratoid noise score of guitar, bass, and electronics.

láwû is ½ of mirrored fatality is an interdependent, underground, and self-managed tr@nsbinary multidisciplinary two-headed beast who has self-booked diy international tours across turtle island (united states of amerikkka), europe, united kingdom, mexico, and thailand. its live biohacking and transmutation ritual installation performances activate the duo as a multispecies of creatures, terratoids, and transhumans. it uploads their transmedia lore to encode a global warrior community responding to transnational calls-to-action for mutual aid, land justice, and prison abolition to terminate the usa war machine.

Rebecca Morgan has spent her career between international human rights projects, farming, and food system development work. Her international work included consulting with Human Rights Watch in Kosovo and with the United Nations Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Guatemala. In food system work she led the National Immigrant and Refugee Farmer Initiative for Heifer International’s USA Country Program prior to being the executive director for the Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship in New York State. Rebecca has been growing food her whole life and currently lives in Upstate New York.

Sheryll Durrant is an urban farmer, educator, and food justice advocate. She is the Food and Agriculture Coordinator for NY New Roots Program, of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and has been the Resident Garden Manager at Kelly Street Garden since 2016. Her work has included developing community-based urban agriculture projects, and providing expertise and technical assistance for gardens within supportive housing developments. She currently serves as Board President for Just Food and is the New York City Farm Service Agency Urban County Committee Chairperson. Sheryll has led workshops and spoken on issues related to urban agriculture for many key organizations, and was part of the 2019-2020 HEAL School of Political Leadership. As a former Design Trust fellow for the Farming Concrete project, she is now responsible for communications and outreach for the data collection platform that helps urban farmers and gardeners measure their impact. Previously, Sheryll spent over 20 years in corporate and institutional marketing.

Yuka C. Honda is a Japanese composer/musician and producer residing in New York City. She is best known for the band Cibo Matto, which she co-founded with Miho Hatori in 1994 and in which Honda created a unique one-man band sound by triggering samples “live.” She has always been supportive of hyper-local food systems.

Eleanor Blakeslee-Drain and Patrick Hennebery operate Berry Brook Farm, certified organic by NOFA-NY Certified Organic, LLC. We strive to improve our soils through responsible organic practices and to grow produce of the highest quality for our customers.

We are motivated to grow more food each year so that we are well positioned to feed our community as climate-based and other disturbances develop. We also firmly believe in paying our crew a living wage to provide a sustainable livelihood in agriculture. We're proud to farm in the Catskills and to be part of the bright future of sustainable agriculture in New York State.

We hope that one day our children will carry on with our toil and love; to continue in our labors of bringing something valuable to this world.

Lucky Dog Farm has been in operation since 2000. The long road from then to now has been filled with the nitty gritty, the delightful, and, the unexpected; all of the things that make life worth living.

Through trial and error, hard work and dedication, patience and learning, our families have worked together to grow food that we are proud of.

Chicory Creek Farm is a small family farm located in Mount Vision, New York halfway between Cooperstown and Oneonta. We grow a wide variety of Certified Organic produce as well as pasture-raised pigs and poultry.

Stony Creek Farmstead is owned and worked by three generations of the Marsiglio family. In 2005 Kate and Dan started growing meat, eggs, and vegetables for sale. We adhere to rigorous free-range, beyond organic, pasturing practices for all of our animals. Our cows and sheep are 100% grass fed. Pigs and poultry supplement their pasture diets with locally grown certified organic grains. Please join our mailing list to learn more.

Our cows are our family and family is at the heart of everything we do on our over 200 year old Danforth Jersey Farm that's been in our family for 7 generations. Of course all our cows have names. We milk a small herd of 40 Jerseys and they are the stars in our milky way. They graze 70 acres of our Catskills pastures and we turn their milk into our Cowbella products at our farmstead creamery.

Nestled in the peaceful quiet of the Western Catskills, La Basse Cour is a small family farm practicing natural methods in harmony with nature. For over 150 years, traditional farming techniques have resulted in rich soils growing nutritious vegetables, berries and herbs and nurturing healthy pastures for our farm animals, and meadows, woodland and wetland habitat for wildlife.

Myers Produce is a regional distributor based out of hubs in New York City, Western Massachusetts, and Northern Vermont. We have been in operation since 2013. We offer our regions’ growers & producers two services: distribution and freight.

The Hub's Mission is to support & strengthen our local food system.

Supporting local food since 2015: Incubated at the local Grange Hall down the road, we have expanded to offer a variety of services to area growers and producers, including delivery, commercial kitchen rentals, co-packing services, and frozen, cold and dry storage capacity to help extend the Northeast region's short growing season.

We now cover over 2,100 miles each week delivering local food up and down the I-87 corridor.

Pandemic Response: Inspired by partnerships that grew out of our emergency food delivery response to COVID-19, a majority of the Hub's programming has shifted to focus on food access and security. We want to help ensure EVERYONE has an opportunity to eat the highest quality food. If we can support our neighbors in need and offer local farmers an opportunity to grow their revenue streams alongside their crops, we know we're having a good day.

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