2017-05-23 The Gastrognomes
TESSA EDICK FOUNDER + EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FARMON! FOUNDATION Tessa’s FarmOn! Foundation is a nonprofit organization working to preserve family farming in America. How? Primarily through youth education, with an eye toward fostering community, the bond that brings us all together and seals our livelihoods, our commitments to
2016 Change Food
Tessa Edick Founder and Executive Director FarmOn! Foundation Tessa Edick, founder of the FarmOn! movement, has cultivated and nurtured a broad network of supporters, partners and beneficiaries within New York State as a pilot program that can be implemented nationally. The Foundation was formed due to the
2016-12-04 Organic Hudson Valley
Seed Money December 4, 2016 Seed Money FarmOn! Foundation teaches kids about both irrigation lines and bottom lines Story by Brian P.J. Cronin Photograph by Travis W. Keyes Photography I first met Tessa Edick a year and a half ago, and I don’t think she’s stood still since. It was a gray
2016-09-30 OSWEGO
Alumna Shares Message of Empowerment With Students Tessa Edick ’92 encouraged students to be “disrupters” and to find a new way to look at a problem or issue in society. That’s what she is doing with her organization, FarmOn! Foundation. She is challenging society’s view of farming
2016-04-20 OSWEGO
Farm Chic: Global Food Entrepreneur Tessa Edick ’92 Brings Local Farming To The Table April 20, 2016 Tessa Edick ’92 hopes to revolutionize the way New Yorkers eat to save local farming, improve nutrition and build stronger communities. With more than a third of all farmers in America
2015-11-18 Public News Service
Nonprofit Aims to Change NY School Lunch Menus with Farmers' Help Public News Service - NY | September 2015 | Download audio Animal Welfare, Children's Issues, Community Issues and Volunteering, Consumer Issues, Education, Health Issues, Hunger/Food/Nutrition, Rural/Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, Youth Issues September 15, 2015 COPAKE, N.Y. - The founders
2015-10-08 Inside Chappaque Inside Armonk
Program in Poughkeepsie Highlights “Edible Education” Efforts A recent gathering of support for the FarmOn! Foundation at Café of Love in Mount Kisco offered an instant reminder of what constitutes the most ideal farm to table food. Just because something states “farm” does not mean a