Stacey Purslow
NH Farm to School Program Coordinator

Stacey Purslow, DTR, is the Program Coordinator for the NH Farm to School Program. She started the position in June 2009. She holds a culinary degree, a BFA in photography from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC, and is a graduate of UNH's Thompson School, where she studied nutrition and dietetics. She is completing her training this year in the Master Gardener's Program through UNH Cooperative Extension. Stacey has spent many years in the food service industry, most recently with the Headstart program in Strafford County, and before that as a restaurant owner. She originally hails from New Jersey and has been living in New Hampshire for thirteen years.

Elisabeth Farrell
Sustainability Academy Program Coordinator

Elisabeth "El" Farrell is the Program Coordinator of the UNH Sustainability Academy's Culture and Sustainability Initiative and Food and Society Initiative. In this role, she assists with the organization and implementation of curricula, research, projects, and events related to the issues of culture, public arts, community, food, local and sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and other related issues. El has worked for UNH's endowed sustainability program for ten years managing initiative projects and events, including the New Hampshire Farm to School Program, the development of the UNH Dual Major in EcoGastronomy, the Cultural Excursions program, and many others. In addition to serving on numerous committees across campus, such as the Dual Major in EcoGastronomy Steering Committee, she is a member of the Northeast Regional Farm to School Steering Committee and the New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture. El holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in writing and literature from the Bennington College Writing Seminars and her poems have been published in a number of literary journals. She is presently a student in the UNH Master of Public Administration program and the Certificate in Sustainability Politics and Policy. She holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of New Hampshire.

Lynda Brushett, Ph.D.
Program Consultant

Lynda Brushett is the principal of Niche Marketing, a rural development consulting practice founded in 1983 to support community-based, community-led, community change and a Senior Partner with the Cooperative Development Institute, the technical assistance provider for cooperative development in New England and New York. She is the Facilitator for the New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture, an informal network that brings together members of the farm community and non-farming public with agricultural and community development professionals to enhance the social, economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture in New Hampshire, In this capacity she is the Program Director for the New Hampshire Farm to School Program. She is the co-author of Market Planning for Value-Added Agricultural Products, the author of a related publication, Specialty Food Business Fundamentals, and numerous food, agriculture and rural development studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of New Hampshire.

Advisory Committee

• Peter Allison
  Director, Upper Valley Farm to School Network
• Lynda Brushett, Ph.D.
  Project Consultant, NH Farm to School Program
• Marty Davis, RD, LD  Food Service Director, Henniker
  
• Jodie Duclos
  Teacher, Idlehurst Elementary School, Somersworth
• Elisabeth Farrell
  Program Coordinator, UNH Sustainability Institute
• Mindy Fitterman, MEd, RD
  Nutrition Consultant, NH Fruit and Vegetable Program, NH Department of Health and Human Services
• Nada Haddad
• Extension Educator, UNH Cooperative Extension of Rockingham County
  
  
• Gail McWilliam Jellie
  Director, Division of Agricultural Development, NH Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food
• Stacey Purslow
  Program Coordinator, NH Farm to School Program
• Ruth Smith  NH Ag in the Classroom program coordinator