Abbie Nelson
Vermont FEED Director
Local Purchasing Programming
Email: abbie@nofavt.org
Abbie Nelson is the Education Coordinator of NOFA Vermont and the Director of Vermont Food Education Every Day (VT FEED), involved in all aspects of local purchasing and professional development of school food service. She has been a teacher for over 20 years in regular and special education, and worked on an organic vegetable and flower farm. As part of NOFA Vermont and a VT FEED partner, she has been working in Vermont schools linking Food, Farm, and Nutrition education for 8 years. Her role has been focused on school food by connecting kitchen managers with local farmers, helping farmers with agricultural education on their farms, training school food service personnel, and teaching school staff how to introduce new foods to students.
Anne Bijur
Communications and Outreach Coordinator
Email: abijur@shelburnefarms.org
Bio and photo coming soon!
Danielle Pipher
Farm to School Education and
Professional Development Coordinator
Email: dpipher@shelburnefarms.org
Danielle Pipher works with Vermont FEED on Farm to School education initiatives and community development. She works in schools throughout Vermont linking food, farm and nutrition education in the classroom and works with school staff on implementing school gardens, garden based curriculum and nutrition education. Danielle is passionate and dedicated to building healthy and enduring relationships between people, land and wellness through connecting Vermont's schools and dynamic communities with sustainable local food and energy systems.
Erica Curry
Northeast Regional Co-Lead for
National Farm to School Network
Email: ecurry@shelburnefarms.org
Erica Curry works for Shelburne Farms and is a Food, Farm and Nutrition Educator for VT FEED. Erica’s background includes seven years of working with communities focusing on developing connections between farms, schools and community members. She has a Bachelors in Ecology and a Masters in Environmental Studies focusing on Sustainable Food and Farming Education. Erica has lead multi-day workshops focusing on Farm Education and Place Based Education. She is passionate about exploring how healthy local food can be incorporated into every person’s life and believes that “eating is an agricultural act!”
Dana Hudson
Special Projects
Dana Hudson works for Shelburne Farms and Vermont FEED (Food Education Every Day) on special Farm to School projects. She was raised on her family’s farm in Maryland and has 13 years of experience working on food, farming and education issues. She has a Bachelors in Environmental Analysis and Planning and a Masters in Environmental Studies – focused on Agriculture Education and Nonprofit Administration. Dana has facilitated farmer to school relations throughout the state of Vermont. She led in the project management of the initial 3 years of Burlington School Food Project, highly successful multi-partner farm to school initiative in Vermont’s largest city. She is an adjunct faculty at Johnson State College and has run graduate level professional development courses on farm to school throughout the state, as well as farm-based multi-day seminars and workshops for farmers from all over the US and Canada. She is a founding and current board member of the Farm Based Education Association. She loves to garden, cook, and kayak and lives with her husband and son in Huntington.
