Jessie has a Bachelor’s Degree from Smith College in Northampton, MA, and is a Boston-area native. After graduating, she moved to New York City and began a career in reality television production. Disillusioned with the entertainment industry, she moved back to Boston to run GCG, re-awakening her passion for food, farming, and sustainability. Jessie has extensive experience in marketing, communications, management, production and PR. She is involved in the Local Food movement and is passionate about cooking with fresh ingredients. Since co-founding the company in 2008, Jessie has led GCG through four successful seasons, building and maintaining over 300 raised-bed vegetable gardens, and forming a partnership with Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare to promote wellness through growing food at the workplace. Jessie can be found wearing multiple hats daily, and is often dirt-covered and farming in the morning, running the business in the afternoon, and speaking at events in the evening.
Scott joined Green City Growers in the summer of 2012 and is excited to grow produce as well as a company with a bottom line focused on community health, environmental sustainability, and local food production. Scott has a Master’s degree in business management and sustainability from the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont. While obtaining his degree from SIT, Scott launched a furniture company in Burlington, Vermont, which reclaimed and repurposed historic lumber from the barns and buildings of New England, and acted as a management consultant for economic development projects in Rwanda. For the past four years he helped grow a marketing department and a greening initiative at an environmental study abroad organization in Massachusetts. Scott comes to Green City Growers with this diverse business background as well as experience in landscape construction and craftsmanship using wood, metal, and stone. He is passionate about urban agriculture and sustainability at the household and commercial levels.
Augusta joined us in September 2013 after years of working in technology, and is enthusiastic to join a dynamic entrepreneurial team focused on reconnecting the people of Boston and beyond with the source of their food, and promoting local food security. Born on a maple sugar farm in Vermont, a fascination with real food, where it comes from, and how it sustains family and cultural traditions has been a lifetime arc of personal study. Augusta has an MBA from UNH, teaches food prep classes, blogs for several health-related endeavors, and opened an organic smoothie and juice cafe.
Sarah is a 2012 graduate of the University of Vermont, where she earned a degree in Animal Science with a minor in Public Communication. A former picky eater-turned-foodie, Sarah’s love of cooking and fresh foods is largely influenced by the abundance of delicious and locally produced cuisine she discovered while living and studying in Vermont. She moved to Boston in the summer of 2013 to get a taste of city living and couldn’t be more excited to join the GCG team. Sarah has experience on horse and dairy farms, and is excited to learn more about vegetable farming via her green-thumbed colleagues at GCG! When she isn’t preparing food or thinking about food (which is most of the time), Sarah is often riding her bike or geeking out to underground music. She currently writes for the Boston Hassle music blog, and previously worked at an indie record store and college radio station.
Laura has a lifetime of experience in gardening and horticulture. Born to a botanist mother, her first jobs ranged from working in a commercial greenhouse, to harvesting flowers, to building city parks in Northern Ireland. More recently she helped design, build and operate the Produce Project urban farm on a vacant lot in New York’s capital district, and worked designing urban landscapes and rooftop gardens for Rader + Crews Landscape Architecture in New York City. She is excited about building a sustainable food system in a city she loves. When she’s not gardening you might find her playing the fiddle in one of Boston’s Irish pubs.
Adrienne has been with Green City Growers since the fall of 2012 and currently develops garden education programming and teaching lessons for kids and adults. Adrienne holds a bachelor's degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and has studied a wide variety of subjects, from sustainability to botany to writing. Adrienne has worked on farms, in gardens, and in schools all over the country and loves to get her hands dirty. When not farming or teaching garden lessons, Adrienne can be found biking around Boston, co-coordinating a community dance group, out in nature hiking or camping, or in class at the Commonwealth School of Herbal Medicine, where she is in a first-year apprentice program!
Leilani joined the GCG team in the summer of 2013 and is very excited to be a part of the company. Hailing from the Midwest, Leilani headed east to attend Syracuse University where she graduated with Bachelor’s degrees in anthropology, international relations and Spanish. When not farming, Leilani is organizing a progressive news cooperative and gardening. She loves nature, biking, and community activism.
Erik earned a dual Bachelors degree from UMASS Boston in English and Environmental Studies, a perplexing combination he put to use debating the benefits of existential theory to fellow field farmers during several seasons of service at Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown, MA. Off the farm Erik pursues his insatiable curiosities and altruistic inclinations across the country and the globe, most recently taking in Egypt’s Arab Spring, trekking through Nepal during widespread anti-government strikes, and gallivanting about Boston’s basements and back alleys with local rockers Luddy Mussy. Erik was ecstatic to find Green City where his idealism, enthusiasm, and passion for produce could be put to use to help the Boston community and someday (hopefully) the rest of this big ol’ crazy world!
After graduating from Middlebury College and spending one year as an executive account manager for a small apparel company in Burlington, Vermont, Margo relocated to Boston and landed at GCG. Margo’s agriculture roots run deep (for a city girl): her father is a horticulturalist and her mother and stepfather own and operate an organic farm just outside of Seattle. As intern, she is excited to expand her urban farming skills and her marketing know-how while helping communities deepen their ties to local agriculture.
She has spent the past few years traveling around and working on different farms to promote the local food and sustainable agriculture movement and is incredibly excited to be a part of a company that focuses on both of those things in an urban environment. Her love of agriculture stems from her deep love of delicious food. Paige is sporadically working on a degree in Environmental Studies and Sustainability. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, coffee, and getting lost in the city of Boston.
