Name: Leanna Mulvihill
Age: 27 Hometown: New Paltz, NY Job Title: Livestock Manager Describe your job in five words: Keep animals moving. Feed People. Favorite book: A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck – This is an excellent read-aloud book for kids and adults. Currently listening to: The Hamilton soundtrack! What you do when you’re not farming: volunteering at the Comida de Vida/Food of Life Food Pantry or hanging out at the Lantern Favorite joke: What did the fish say when it swam into a concrete wall? DAM! Favorite Place on the Farm: The next paddock where the critters get a fresh slice of pasture to enjoy. Thing you can’t get through a day on the farm without: Long pants. You gotta cover up out in the pasture! There’s ticks, prickers and all kinds of things to protect yourself against. Top Five Goals for 2017
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Name: Rose Karabush
Age: 26 Hometown: Highland Park, IL (but now it’s Amenia, NY!!!) Job Title: Farm Manager/Vegetable Manager Describe your job in five words: Coordination, administration, and growing veggies. Favorite book: “Nonviolent Communication” by Marshall Rosenberg Currently listening to: S-Town Favorite place on the farm: The vegetable fields at sunset. Favorite Joke: What’s small, red, and whispers? A hoarse radish. What you do when you’re not farming: Meditating, trying new vegetarian recipes in my slow-cooker, and calling my grandmother Thing you can’t get through a day on the farm without: Saying “I just heard this piece on NPR…” and sunscreen. Top Five Goals for 2017: 1. Grow lots of beautiful cover crops to build up our soils! 2. Do more trail running 3. Try at least one vegetable I’ve never had 4. Make it to an Amenia Fire Company Pancake Breakfast 5. Not kill my houseplants Name: Luke Tilghman
Age: 30 Hometown: Charlottesville Virginia Job Title: Assistant vegetable manager Describe your job in five words: Plant, weed, harvest, eat, repeat Favorite book: The Devil in the White City Currently listening to: Nina Simone Favorite place on the farm: back woodlot Favorite Joke: A duck walks into a bar wearing one shoe. The bartender asks “hey, did you lose a shoe” The duck replies “no, I found this” What you do when you’re not farming: Cooking, bonfires, going on as many adventures as possible Thing you can’t get through a day on the farm without: Podcasts! Top Five Goals for 2017: Staying more focused, and executing a task more methodically. Read more. Roast a pig. Stay in touch with friends and family better. Buy a truck!! ![]() Name: Meg Callahan Age: 26 Hometown: New York City Job Title: farm crew Describe your job in five words: love water and move efficiently Favorite book: Impossible but Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Currently listening to: right this second, ZABA - Glass Animals. recently a lot of David Bowie, Bjork, LCD Soundsystem, Mountain Man, Joy Division, Nirvana, Hole. also I’m noticing a correlation between the amount of time I spend alone in the greenhouse and how much Lana Del Rey I listen to…for better or for worse, each tomato seedling has heard Florida Kilos at least 50 times Favorite place on the farm: when I’m feeling nordic, there’s this spot where you can watch the sun rise, hop into a cold trout stream and eat tender bitter wild greens, but the greenhouse is generally the warmest, sunniest and best smelling place to be Favorite joke: a Buddhist monk walks up to a hot dog stand and says “make me one with everything” What you do when you’re not farming: always trying to find ways to move that make my body feel good, more flexible and energized when I get back to farming…maintaining an on/off again relationship with a sourdough starter and making disposable to do lists Thing you can’t get through a day on the farm without: sunglasses I’m not attached to and a playlist I didn’t make myself Top Five Goals for 2017: 1. Cook outside for as many meals as possible / avoid making more dishes than absolutely necessary 2. Take really good care of my truck 3. Find new ways to play, take risks and stay interested everyday without being inefficient 4. Grow tasty culinary mushrooms on substrates I’d otherwise trash (e.g., old newspaper + used coffee grounds) 5. Approach a new piece of land without offending it |
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