Tianna Kennedy Executive Director - Catskills Agrarian Alliance 2023
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My guest today is Tianna Kennedy. She has been farming in the Northern Catskills for over a decade. She is the executive director of Catskills Agrarian Alliance, a multi-stakeholder food sovereignty project working on many food related issues in the NY Catskills foodshed. Tianna, Amanda Wong and Walter Riesen also own and operate Star Route Farm, LLC, a diversified vegetable and small grain farm growing exclusively for mutual aid. The CAA evolved from The 607 CSA, an 800+ person multi-farm Community Supported Agriculture Project supporting 45 farms and food businesses in Otsego, Schoharie, and Delaware counties. Tianna is a member of the Watershed Ag Economic Viability Committee and is Treasurer for Draft Animal Power Network. In 2022, she was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition by Rep. Antonio Delgado. She started the Catskills Chapter of the National Young Farmers’ Coalition. She is also a founding member of Delhi’s Bushel Collective and the Schooner Apollonia, a Hudson Valley Sail Freight venture.
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