Jacob is a farmer, teacher and community organizer focused on bringing people together to build resilient local food systems. With the New Hampshire Food Alliance, he led a grassroots listening tour with partners across the New Hampshire food system to understand “who is doing what?” to promote climate resilience in the NH food system and what more could be done. He also researched and developed a messaging toolkit to help people explain the value of this work to all audiences, and helped form a working group of network partners to start collectively addressing resilience shortcomings. Jacob studied at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, where he coordinated resilience planning efforts between the college and broader community. He also taught and farmed at a boarding school in The Bahamas where he helped found a farm-to-school program sourcing food from local growers, and later dove into ocean farming through kelp and shellfish aquaculture in his native Cape Cod.
