- B.A. Communication Studies, Alfred University
Institute for Agroecology
BIO
Carley spent several years working in the food industry as a chef and baker, running her own successful food businesses in the Catskills and Hudson Valley, NY. A volunteer shift at a small non-profit urban farm became the catalyst that led to a career shift. Volunteering quickly became a job that launched her into the world of food access, urban growing, and community connection. Her current work focuses on increasing access to nature and fresh, local produce through small-scale urban growing spaces and free farm stands for the neighborhood and the entire community. Although she has been in the Northeast since college, the family garden in the mountains of rural West Virginia was the core of Carley’s childhood and the foundation of her understanding of the direct link between growing your own food and feeling food secure.
Bio
Carley spent several years working in the food industry as a chef and baker, running her own successful food businesses in the Catskills and Hudson Valley, NY. A volunteer shift at a small non-profit urban farm became the catalyst that led to a career shift. Volunteering quickly became a job that launched her into the world of food access, urban growing, and community connection. Her current work focuses on increasing access to nature and fresh, local produce through small-scale urban growing spaces and free farm stands for the neighborhood and the entire community. Although she has been in the Northeast since college, the family garden in the mountains of rural West Virginia was the core of Carley’s childhood and the foundation of her understanding of the direct link between growing your own food and feeling food secure.