Workers Highlight on OFRF's Partnership & Improvement Supervisor

Haley Baron (she/her/hers) is OFRF’s Partnership & Enchancment Supervisor. Haley joined the group’s Evaluation & Education program in 2019 sooner than coming into into her current perform in early 2020. She is based in San Francisco and has over a decade of experience championing sustainable and equitable meals strategies. When Haley isn’t establishing sturdy collaborative relationships with OFRF companions, she enjoys visiting farms and farmers markets, cooking, gardening, and simply currently took up ceramics. Haley enjoys exploring her dwelling state of California, from climbing to “strolling on Ocean Seaside and in Golden Gate Park, every just a few blocks from my house,” she says.

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Inform us about your self. I grew up throughout the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with my dad and mother and older sister. I favored each half about meals from a youthful age and was obsessed with supporting San Franciscans who didn’t have the similar entry to meals that I did so I began volunteering at a neighborhood folks consuming room as soon as I used to be 10. This was the beginning of my dedication to meals justice and agriculture. Why do you care about pure farming and/or pure evaluation? I’m obsessed with establishing a extra wholesome and additional merely meals system, the place all ecosystems and individuals are supported and will thrive. To take motion, we must always change the way in which during which we develop meals and what we prioritize. Pure agriculture removes toxic chemical compounds from the system, builds additional resilient farms and supply chains, will assist mitigate native climate change, and offers a safer setting for farm employees. Who's your farming, evaluation and/or meals hero – and why? All pure farmers and ranchers! They're the true heroes as they've chosen a path that isn’t always easy and requires carrying 25 hats at once, nonetheless one which's vastly helpful to the surroundings and society. What are you captivated with engaged on at OFRF? There's a big gap throughout the sources, financial and tutorial, that go to pure farming strategies as compared with normal agriculture. Subsequently, now we've to battle for that help and it’s thrilling to be part of a company that is doing merely that!