HYFC BOARD MEMBERS
(2022–2024)
TAYLOR HARTSONthey/them
president |
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Taylor is a part-time farm worker and a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Notre Dame. Their graduate work focuses on the intersections of gender & sexuality, race, sustainable agriculture, and identity. Taylor works on a diversified regenerative livestock farm in their spare time and is especially enamored with the herd of goats they help tend to. Outside of their graduate studies and farm work, Taylor is a fermentation enthusiast, an amateur cheesemaker, and a budding gardener.
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Danielle is head farmer and Executive Director of Soul Food Project Indy, an urban farm, located in predominantly black communities. Danielle takes vacant lots and transforms them into farms. Since 2017, Danielle’s urban farm has been growing a wide diversity of veggies along with a small flock of hens on less than an acre, providing 35-50 CSA shares per year. Danielle is also a Land Advocacy Fellow with the National Young Farmers Coalition. She is an avid video gamer and just started bouldering and rock climbing.
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Marie and her partner Nic run Outlier Farmstead in Bloomington, Indiana. Together, they grow specialty crops, mostly vegetables, on a little less than an acre. In 2023 Outlier is looking to expand more into fruit, primarily apples and grapes, and nuts. They grow in high tunnels as well as outside, and mostly provide food to the People's Market Cooperative in Bloomington, Indiana. Aside from farming, Marie really likes to birdwatch (novice status).
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andrew raridon |
sierra tusa reed |
nate brownlee |
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treasurer |
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member at large |
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member at large |
Andrew Raridon is a farmer advocate who fell in love with farming after a year apprenticing on a vegetable farm in Southern Illinois. He got his PhD in Sociology from Purdue University, and now studies inequality and activism in the food system, particularly among beginning farmers. He recently moved from Valparaiso to Virginia, where he teaches at Mary Baldwin University, and serves as HYFC’s Treasurer remotely. He loves craft beer, pizza, and gardening with his partner, Sarah, and their three kids.
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Sierra is a farmworker who has a passion for helping lift up farm employees’ perspectives and paths into farming. She has worked on farms in other states, including Maine. As a farm laborer first and foremost, Sierra has a unique perspective and is eager to see what HYFC can do to bring farmers together.
genesis mcKiernan-Allenshe/her
member at large Genesis and her husband, Eli Robb, run Full Hand Farm, a four-season vegetable farm in Noblesville. Together with a crew of dedicated employees, they grow organically on about five acres and sell year round at the Broad Ripple Farmers Market and to about 15 Indianapolis restaurants. Genesis is the official extrovert of the farm and loves connecting with other farmers and eaters.
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Nate and his wife, Liz Brownlee, raise livestock on pasture in southeast Indiana. They rotationally graze sheep, pigs, turkeys, meat chickens, and laying hens, and sell via their meat and egg CSA, restaurants, farmer’s markets, and independent grocery stores. Nate’s favorite new thing is listening to audiobooks while moving animals to fresh pasture.
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