Episode 243: Lisa Murgatroyd

Published: Dec. 1, 2015, 11:40 p.m.

b'This weeks featured farmer is Lisa Murgatroyd. Lisa and her husband Jesse are owner operators of First Light Farm CSA in Petaluma, Ca., a 150-member organic CSA, farm store, and Pick-Your-Own bouquet patch. They also sell at farmers market and wholesale to SF Bay area grocery stores. Lisa is also founder of Chica Bloom Farm and a founding member of North Bay Flower Collective, as well as former Advisory Board member of the Farmers Guild. Lisa has worked in the food movement for more than a decade launching the first farm-to-school program integrated into state curriculum The L.I.F.E. program in Lopez Island, Washington and many other food and education projects connecting people with the land and each other around building a bright food system future. Additionally, she is an organization development consultant recently finishing her M.A. in organization development at Sonoma State University.'