OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

We are overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors. Three new members are elected every year at the annual meeting to serve a three-year term.

Our 2019 Board of Directors (not pictured: Jeff Patterson, DJ Mitchell, George Travis, Carol Card, Sherry Haydock) (new photo coming soon!)

Our 2024 Board of Directors are:

Jason Curtin, President
Jon Ferris, Vice President
Carol Carmody, Treasurer
Jeff Patterson, Clerk
Sherry Haydock, Agcom
Abby Adams
Sarah Bishop
Jess Callow
Caroline Fiore
Nancy Fleming
Lis Herbert
Bill Hobbs
Steve Hoenig
John LeClaire
Craig Nicholson
Nick Whitman
Philip Ayoub
Rich Rosenbaum
Katherine Ruhl

OUR STAFF

Codman Community Farms has a growing dedicated and committed staff, currently including:

Pete Lowy; *Farm Manager*

Pete Lowy has been the Farm Manager at Codman Community Farms since 2016. Before Codman, he founded *Pete & Jen’s Backyard Birds* with his wife, Jen Hashley. Originally hailing from New York, he has made his home in MA since 2003 and has been growing vegetables or livestock for more than 20 years. Pete is passionate about developing new and innovative farming systems, raising livestock on pasture, and growing CCF into a thriving community farm for all to enjoy. Pete and Jen are returned Peace Corps volunteers and as time allows, love to continue to travel the world with their son Abe exploring new cultures in search of exotic farmers’ markets and tasty local foods!

Ginger Reiner; *Admin, HR & Office Manager*

Ginger joined the Codman Farm Board in 2017 and served as the Treasurer from 2018-2021. She recently transitioned from Board member to staff and joins us as the Finance, HR & Office Manager, holding down the back office operations that support the farm. Ginger lives in Lincoln with her husband and two kids and when not at the farm can often be found on a bicycle.

Aimee Pappas; *Co-Livestock Manager*

After transitioning from education to agriculture in 2020, Aimee started her farming journey working with cut flowers and livestock in Western Massachusetts. Growing up on the West Coast she was always outside, camping, gardening, and exploring. Finding agriculture felt like a homecoming for her outdoorsy spirit. She’s excited to continue her journey at Codman, working outside and tending to the needs of the livestock and the land.
In her free time, she enjoys adventuring with her dog Misha, traveling, eating good food, and doing all sorts of crafting.

Abby Devries, *Co-Livestock Manager*

Abby has been deepening her relationship with the land and the creatures that belong to it since she was a child spending summers on her grandparents’ farm in the upper Midwest. After completing an undergraduate degree in philosophy, she realized that her work in the world needed to be tactile rather than theoretical. Rooted rather than ethereal. And what better way to root oneself in one's environment than to cultivate sustenance from the very ground? Abby brings to Codman over ten years of livestock stewardship experience, a fundamental commitment to attentive care over agenda, and a whole systems design perspective.
When she is not farming, she can be found weaving baskets, writing stories, practicing yoga, making art, cooking large communal meals, and investigating little nature mysteries.

Paul Longnecker; *Market Garden Manager*

Paul was born and raised right here in Lincoln MA, and could not be more excited to return to the state as Codman’s self proclaimed “Veggie Guy.” After a series of adventures and travels across the Americas, Paul finished his Bachelor's at Colorado College, and in lieu of majoring in Planet Earth, decided that Geology would provide his outdoor fix. The desk job life never worked for Paul, and he quickly ran back to the mountains of Colorado to farm, backpack, rock climb and ride as many bicycles as he could get himself on.
If you see Paul at Codman, say hi or give him a wave! If you don’t, he’s likely chasing sunshine, thinking about symbiotic ecological interactions, or playing board games with his brothers.

Tillie Loeffelholz; *Farm Chef*

Tillie joined the Codman team wanting to get even closer to working directly with food grown locally after working at farm to table restaurants in the Boston area (Dear Annie and Field & Vine).
As our first ever Full-time Farm Chef she is excited about creating dishes for the Codman community using seasonal ingredients from the farm.

Tillie is a recent New England transplant originally from Iowa. She moved from Seattle to attend BU’s Gastronomy Program after changing careers from clinical research to follow her passion through food.

Tillie enjoys spending her time with her black lab, Winnie, and enjoys biking, hiking, and the New England outdoors.

Annie Pease;
*Flower Manager*

After three seasons at Tea Lane Flower Farm on Martha’s Vineyard, Annie is very pleased to return to her beautiful hometown and expand Codman Farm’s flower program. Annie brings an educational background in fine art and architecture, work experience in floral design, organic farming, and event planning, and reverence for the growing process to her work. She is delighted to share the season’s beauty with you all.
When not in the fields or the kitchen, she can be found with her dog Edith Pilaf on a walk around Sandy Pond, in the antiques basement of the Old Town Hall Exchange, or at home in Somerville knitting and watching Bravo.

Alexandra Wolf; *Farm Store Manager*

Alexandra comes to Codman Community Farm with a diverse academic and professional background in the environmental sphere. As an undergraduate at Tufts University, Alexandra contributed to conservation research on monarch butterflies and biodiversity in Bhutan’s biological corridors. Outside of the classroom she ran Tufts Food Rescue Collaborative and worked on environmental education projects for Tufts Office of Sustainability. After graduation, she managed the retail operations for a small organic farm and taught horticulture in local correctional facilities. Most recently, Alexandra was the Activism Team Leader for Patagonia Boston where she led environmental grants review, non-profit and community relations, and the employee activism program. Beyond work, Alexandra loves to run in the mountains, share time with her hens, and pursue many creative projects from mending to painting watercolors to cooking. She is excited for this next chapter at Codman Community Farm!

Annabel Caseria; *Farm Store Assistant*

Before coming to Codman Farm, Annabel spent the summer harvesting blueberries at a neighboring farm. She intends to pursue her interest in sustainable farming next year in college using her commitment to the future of agriculture and her desire to contribute to sustainable farming practices.
While not on the farm, Annabel can be found hiking with her dog Lucy at Mt. Misery, playing on the LSRHS Girls Rugby team, and playing guitar and cello in her rock band, On the Run

Walt Emann; *Market Garden Assistant*

With a lifelong and deep-rooted passion for plants, animals, people, and the outdoors, Walt brings a rich and varied set of experiences to the Codman team, including wildlife and habitat research in the Sky Islands of Arizona, Forest Service trail crew work in the wildernesses of Montana and Idaho, and habitat restoration and planting native species in the Sourland ecoregion of his home state, New Jersey, where he and his family have cared for a garden and a small flock of chickens. After graduating from the University of Vermont, he recently migrated from his home to nearby Lexington so that he could explore new pastures and possibilities in farming—he couldn’t be more excited about getting his hands dirty, his thumbs green, and growing good food for good people!
When he isn’t in the greenhouses or the fields, Walt spends his time hiking, camping, bird- and bug-watching, foraging, cooking, sketching, and singing.

David Ries;
*Volunteer at Large*

David Ries has been a longtime friend of the farm, serving as a board member, volunteer, tractor-driver, wood-splitter, head mower, and delivery driver, among other titles and responsibilities. David knows the farm better than just about anyone, and his presence and kindness are a gift to the whole farm. If you see him out and about be sure to say hi, he loves to chat and would welcome an opportunity to share farm tales…

Poppy & Portia

Some of our two hardest working and most dedicated farmhands are our two livestock guardian dogs, Portia and our newest pup, Poppy!. They spend their days happily out in the fields keeping an eye on our birds, doing what their ancestors have been bred to do for hundreds of years. They do enjoy a few pets from our farmers and volunteers, but if you see them out in the fields please admire them from a distance - they’re working! Poppy is is an Akbash and Great Pyrenees mix and Portia is part Great Pyrenees and part Akbash/Anatolian Shepherd.