Who We Are
2023 Farm Staff
Back row (left to right): Maya Bower, Andy Jones, Stephania Surowiec, Chris Spencer, Silas Branson, Kathie Sullivan, Will Pearl, Bella Palmieri, Aly Martelle.
Front row kneeling (left to right): Lily Drufva, Georgia McDougall, Colin Swanson.
Intervale Community Farm has five full-time, year-round employees and a part-time year-round bookkeeper/administrator. The remaining staff members are seasonal employees, with some experienced returnees serving in key roles. We have eleven full-time staff in the summer, plus a couple experienced part-timers. Training aspiring farmers is one of the goals of ICF, and education about farming is part of achieving this.
Aly Martelle (she/her/they/them)
Aly started working at the Intervale Community Farm in 2007. She began as extra help for weeding and harvesting and worked longer and longer each season until the Winter Share program at ICF expanded and full time year round work opened up. Aly jumps into many projects on the farm but focuses on the CSA, propagation greenhouse, wholesale, washing, packing, gleaning and donations, field work, harvest, winter growing and working with the crew. She loves food and the connection we all make through growing and eating together!
Andy Jones (he/him)
Andy has managed Intervale Community Farm since 1993. While Andy relishes planting, weeding and harvesting, his true love at ICF are the CSA members and staff that keep the farm a vibrant part of the local community. He also values ICF's partnerships with other farmers, researchers, service providers and advocates working for a just and sustainable food system. Away from the farm, Andy loves to hike, cook, ski, and enjoy the company of his wife Helen Rock and sons Davis and Ian.
Bella Palmieri (they/them)
Chris Spencer (he/him)
Colin Swanson (he/him)
Georgia McDougall (she/her)
Georgia joined the crew at ICF in 2021 and she is thrilled to have the opportunity to work at such an impressive farm. This fall she will start her third year at UVM studying Agroecology with a minor in chemistry. Previously, she worked on a diversified vegetable farm in her hometown of Granby, CT. Georgia is looking forward to having some more farm friends to grow and talk food with! Off the farm, she loves to cook, bake, tend to her fermentation station, drink coffee and throw pottery.
Kathie Sullivan (she/her)
Kathie joined ICF in 2010 as the new bookkeeper/membership manager/social media manager after being a part of the farm as a member since 2000. Her background as a teacher, law librarian, and information manager fits nicely with the work of managing the farm’s 600-plus members and helping members navigate through the workings of the farm. Kathie is a native Vermonter and enjoys gardening and growing vegetables at her home in Essex Junction, where she lives with her wife, Alison, and two cats Dooley and Grasshopper
Maya Bower (she/her)
Maya has worked at the Intervale Community Farm since 2016. She is involved in many corners of the farm, from fertility planning and application, to irrigation, building projects, field work and harvest. Maya graduated from the University of Vermont in 2019 with a B.S. in Ecological Agriculture, and has had her hands in the soil since she can remember. When not at ICF, Maya enjoys biking on the dirt roads of Vermont, and hiking in the Green Mountains.
Cal mccullough (He/him/they/them)
“I'm generally in charge of keeping ICF's clattery things clattering. I moved from Pittsburgh to Vermont in 2023 and had a brief run at the local Ford dealership, but I found the community lacking and packed up my toolbox in search of greener pastures. At work, I can be found fumbling around under a tractor or chatting happily with a coworker. Outside of work, I'm an avid sailor, a skilled photographer, an unskilled ultimate player, and a coffee geek. Whenever we're growing arugula, you can expect to see me eating it in fistfuls straight out of the ground.”
Will Pearl (he/him)
Emma McKee (she/her)
Emma McKee recently graduated from Middlebury College and tells us "I majored in Environmental Justice and minored in Gender Studies. Some of my hobbies include sketching wildflowers, swimming in cold rivers, baking fresh sourdough, and playing in the mountains. While I was at Middlebury, I worked on a couple different diversified veggie farms in Addison County. I just got back from WWOOFing in Southern Spain and I’m super excited to move back to Vermont and join the ICF team."
Board of directors
Board of Directors
Different from most CSAs, Intervale Community Farm is a consumer cooperative governed by a Board of Directors elected by the membership at its annual meeting. In conjunction with the Farm Manager, the Board sets the overall goals of the organization and the Farm Manager is then charged with achieving those ends using appropriate means. Overall, the system functions well, with the membership involved at the governance level and the staff charged with all operations. The Board of Directors exists to represent the interests of the ICF membership. This member-elected group wants to hear what you think!
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