ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

TOM BUller​

Executive director
Kansas rural center
​founder
​ Buller family farm
[email protected]

LYDIA NEBEL

Farm Director
KC Farm School at Gibbs Road
 President 
​KC Young Farmers Coalition 
[email protected]​

Eric Hemphill

Program manager, Metro Farms & food systems
​ Cultivate KC
eric@cultivatekc.org

Claire Barnhart​

KSU Research Assistant
Growing growers program coordinator
Kansas State University
[email protected]
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CLAIRE ZIMMERMAN

FARM MANAGER
JCCC SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
​OPEN PETAL FARM
[email protected]

claire sinovic

Grower engagement manager
KC Healthy Kids
csinovic@kchealthykids.org

manreet bhullar

assistant professor of produce safety
 Kansas State University 
msbhullar@k-state.edu

cary rivard

Fruit and Vegetable Extension Specialist and Center Director
Kansas State University, Olathe Horticulture Research and Extension Center
[email protected]

Semra fEtahovic

Urban Food systems Initiative Program Coordinator
K-State Olathe
[email protected]

MArgit Kaltenekker

Katie Nixon

Izula Maximilien

Douglas County
K-State Agriculture
 Extension Agent

[email protected]

President 
The KC Food Hub 
Food Systems Director
WC MO Community Action Agency
​  Founder
Green Gate Family Farm
[email protected]

SMALL FARMS OUTREACH SPECIALIST
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
[email protected]

Tamara reall

Jackson Country Extension Field Specialist in Horticulture
University of Missouri 
[email protected]

Todd Higgins

Clay County Extension FIELD SPECIALIST IN HORTICULTURE
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 
[email protected]

Neil Rudisill

Urban Farmer
Woodland City KC
[email protected]

Courtney Becker

Bridget Luff​

Cory Creed

KSU PHD Research Assistant
Growing growers program coordinator
Kansas State University
[email protected]

Farm Outreach Coordinator
New Growth
[email protected]

Wyandotte County
​Hort Agent
KSU resesarsch & ExtensioN 
ccreed@ksu.edu

  anthony Reardon 

Johnson county horticulture Extension agent-small farms
Kansas State University
[email protected]