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Farm Fresh Rhode Island
1005 Main St #1220
Pawtucket, RI 02860

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Noah Fulmer
Executive Director - noah@farmfreshri.org

Noah grew up in central New Jersey where suburban development pressures are a persistent challenge to farm viability. The deep taste of a freshly picked blueberry won Noah over at an early age. He was raised on corn from the farmstand down the road and spoiled by the flavors of his grandmother's traditional soups -- made fresh from vegetables growing in the small backyard-turned-garden that lay just beyond her kitchen window. But despite the "Garden State" nostalgia, new houses and strip malls were devouring nearby farmland. Noah saw the same patterns after moving to Rhode Island for college.

Noah's passion led him to co-found Farm Fresh Rhode Island. How could you ensure that local farms and just-picked foods have a place in our communities? People want to buy locally grown foods, but don't necessarily have the resources. The Internet is an ideal starting point for providing information about Rhode Island's farmers' markets, farms and foods. In fact, it would be critical if family farms are to compete in the modern food system. So despite having sworn off computer coding after two perilous years in high school, the need for a web-based information tool for farms and consumers is too pressing. Noah led both the design and production of the Farm Fresh RI website, with the hopes of expanding access to locally grown foods and sustaining farmstands and fresh flavors for generations to come. Today, in addition to the website, Noah oversees organizational programming, partnerships and strategy.

Sheri Griffin
Program Director - sheri@farmfreshri.org

After establishing a farm stand and mail order citrus business with her parents and grandparents after high school, Sheri Griffin attended the University of Rhode Island, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and biology. After graduation, Ms. Griffin entered the nonprofit world, beginning as Director of Development and Publicity at AS220, a nonprofit arts center in Providence. Since then, she has worked at a range of nonprofits of various sizes and has become active in her neighborhood, working with other volunteers to keep a library branch open and starting a community garden.

Christie Moulton
Outreach Coordinator - christie@farmfreshri.org

Christie comes from Northampton, MA where she grew up valuing home-cooked meals, green spaces, and knowing your neighbors. She was interested in environmental education and came to the University of Rhode Island to study Wildlife Conservation Biology. As a sophomore she studied in Senegal, where she experienced a totally different way of life, centered around sharing food and time with a tight-knit network of family, friends, and community members.

With a new found passion for travel, she headed to Thailand her senior year– to live with farmers, fishermen, and organizers promoting sustainable agriculture and protesting the Green Revolution's devastating effect on family farms. She’s isn't happy that America's industrial, unhealthy food system is being adopted all over the world, and hopes to help set a better example by creating a local food system here in RI that's based on farms that grow food for their community. She's happy to be living in Providence, working with farmers and eaters from all over the world, and seeing how growing, cooking, and eating food together are forming strong communities in Rhode Island!

Hannah Mellion
Markets Coordinator - hannah@farmfreshri.org

Hannah discovered a passion for food and agriculture after completing a cross-country cycling trip in 2006. Though she grew up with a large backyard garden, weeks of cycling through magnificent wheat and massive corn fields provided her first real look at agriculture in this country. Her curiously about where was all that corn was going spurred her to learn more about the way we produce food. After returning to Providence and volunteering at Southside Community Land Trust's City Farm, she discovered the local foods movement as an alternative solution to agribusiness, processed foods, and to creating healthier communities. The local foods movement also provided a perfect way to combine her interests in health, nutrition, agriculture, and community work.

She learned at an early age that food was medicine, and this belief has shape her work. Over the last three years she has worked on several urban and rural farms, and found her way to Farm Fresh RI in 2008 through the support of the C.V. Starr National Service Fellowship. She has come to believe that a strong local and regional food systems that support small farms and provide access to all members of our community is the best way to rebuild our food system.

Jenn Baumstein
Food Systems Coordinator - jenn@farmfreshri.org

Jenn hails from San Francisco, New York, and Vermont, and came to Rhode Island for college. Although farmers markets had been a part of her life since childhood, the idea that she could be part of the system that nourished these markets - and other ways in which urban residents received their daily bounty - had not been integral until she was a sophomore in college and volunteering on a farm in Cumberland. There she was able to be a part of the process of growing, harvesting, and sharing food in ways she had never known before. She spent the next two years working at farmers markets, as it was the easiest way to be a part of the system without a car. This experience confirmed what Jenn already knew: she wanted to work in a place that was helping to grow a just food system in Rhode Island. Now returning after some time away, Jenn hopes to bring some of the new ideas from her time away back to her home in Providence.

Eric Wood
Food Systems Coordinator - eric@farmfreshri.org

Eric's first exposure to local food was in his hometown, Eugene, Oregon, where he began shopping at the farmers market occasionally as a way to get affordable, tasty and interesting ingredients for cooking, which he did as a hobby throughout high school. Eric carried his appreciation for cooking and the local food culture with him to Providence, where he attended Brown and worked in food service. Throughout college, Eric found it difficult to develop much of a relationship with food outside of the dining hall, but after graduating with a degree in economics in 2009, he still had the desire to work with food and study the way the food system works. This led him to pursue a position with Farm Fresh RI.

Eric is working on projects that fall under Farm Fresh RI's mission of food systems change and awareness, hopefully using his economics background to better explain and understand the food system as a whole, as well as doing outreach on food access issues related to income levels and social demographics.