Grow.
Advisory Board
Tina Axelrad, Board Chair & Treasurer
Jamie Blume, Board Member
Dan Hyman, Governance
Emily Kornhauser, Board Member
Ann Kusic, Board Member
Mackenzie Marcus, Board Member
Letisha Steele, Board Member
Andrea Tenenbaum, Secretary
STAFF
Sue Salinger | Executive Director
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Sue is committed to building community resilience and food equity by connecting people to each other and to the earth. Grounded in the ancient, earth-based Jewish Wisdom tradition, Sue brings several decades of transformational project design and execution to Ekar Farm. She is often heard quoting Reb Zalman z"l: "The only way to get it together, is together."
Shelby Johnson | Farm Manager
Shelby Johnson is an active forager and farmer with roots in permaculture, biodynamics, and regenerative agriculture, specializing in mycological systems and gourmet mushroom production. Shelby is dedicated to the missions of food access and security, with an emphasis on community engagement and education. With a strong belief that the synthesis between the wild and human worlds will bring about our collective healing, Shelby is passionate about the vitality of our soils, seeds, and hearts.
Hannah Perez-Postman
Outreach and Sustainability Coordinator
Hannah Perez-Postman has followed the path of food and farming with intention for the last 10 years, acting from a spiritual foundation of justice and care for human communities and the earth. Hannah is a certified permaculturalist, farmer, and social design enthusiast.From food justice organizations serving frontline communities in the food deserts of West Oakland, to a 30 year old no-till organic farm in the Hudson Valley of New York, to a 60 person Buddhist training temple and farm, and now the Denver urban agriculture scene, Hannah has dedicated herself over and over to this path. She is grateful to work at Ekar farm and connect to her Jewish roots while engaging in meaningful, community-based agroecological work.
Sarah Keller
Community Farmer and Educator
Sarah is passionate about food justice and sustainable community-based agriculture. Born and raised in Denver, she is very excited to start her second season farming in her hometown! Sarah has been an active member of Jewish communities since a young age, and is thrilled to have an opportunity to weave her loves for sustainable, community-based agriculture and Judaism together.