Jen Montgomery
With 10 years of organic farming experience behind her, Jen (along with the rest of the crew) decided to take on the challenge of Blackberry Meadows Farm in 2007. She’s worked on farms in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and as far away as Scotland and New Zealand. After all of her worldly farm travels, she took time out to earn her Masters in Sustainable Systems from Slippery Rock University, where she studied the science and theory behind the various styles of Sustainable Agriculture. It’s important to keep farm work flowing. With keeping the big picture in mind, she helps to make this farm an enjoyable and productive place to be.
Greg Boulos
Greg Boulos, our biofuels extraordinaire, is the on-farm handyman and can break (and fix) just about anything. With a Masters in Sustainable Systems from Slippery Rock University he’s put to use his vast knowledge base of alternative energy, green building and ecological design to catalyze green projects around the Pittsburgh region. He has helped to establish four green businesses in the Pittsburgh region in the past four years and is working (endlessly) on helping to advance their missions. He’s our business manager (of sorts) and wrote our stellar business plan!
Kristen Johanson
Kristen has been raising pastured-poultry with Nate for 3 years. In her previous life she worked at a wellness center educating people about natural therapies for children with developmental delays. Before she was a wife and farmer, she was just starting a career as a massage therapist. She’s passionate about farming and deeply believes in food-as-medicine. On the farm, she combines her love of holistic health and nutrition with her love of plants and animals.
Nate Johanson
Nate’s been farming for 3 years. In his previous life he designed toys for children with special needs and spent 2 years living and working in England. His background is in art, particularly sculpture, though he’s a designer, farmer and jack-of-all-trades. Nate loves building things around the farm using re-purposed materials and can find a clever solution to almost anything.
Lynn Trizna
Lynn joined our farm in 2010 as a regular volunteer, in 2011 she came on as a full time apprentice, and in 2012 she’s taken on the task as the Field Manager! She’s enthusiastic about all things sustainable; food, fuel, building, & community.
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Zander Johanson & Evelyn Montgomery-Boulos
Welcome our newest farmers to Blackberry Meadows! The babies are happy to be here and help out on the farm. They already have full-time jobs: being cute, drooling, and ensuring that there is the proper amount of baby-babble during daylight hours. What fun!
