WHO WE ARE: The Noyo Food Forest was
founded in the fall of 2005 by a small group of motivated women who wanted to
create lasting, positive change in the coastal community of Fort Bragg. We are now a network of over 200 local
citizens, including farmers, teachers, children, artists, chefs and many others
who seek to “be the change we wish to see in the world.”
Our project leaders include:
Susan
Lightfoot, Executive Director
Siena MacFarland, Noyo Come-Unity Garden Coordinator
Matthew Tarnoff,
Learning Garden Manager
Kim Morgan,
Head Start Family Garden Project Coordinator
Filis Rose, Senior Kitchen Garden Coordinator
Tara Barnes, BEANS Program Coordinator
Carrie Gerard, Americorps VISTA Member
Our Board of
Directors includes:
Steve Lund,
former FBUSD SuperintendentGeorge
Reinhardt, founder of the Noyo Headlands Unified Design GroupMarty Johnson,
Fort Bragg GrangeNoyo Food
Forest founders Katrina Aschenbrenner and Kimberly Morgan