FARM STAFF
Share the Harvest started with a half acre, a group of volunteers, borrowed tools, and a dream. We now farm six acres in East Hampton with year-round staff and seasonal interns and field crew.
**All portraits taken during COVID were taken at a safe social distance and cropped.
Rose Schellinger
Hometown: Mastic, NY
Favorite farm chore: Harvesting
Favorite farm tool: The tractor
Favorite vegetable: String beans
Favorite flower: Lisianthus & wild flowers
Favorite insect: Bumble bee
Why I grow: "To share the land with my daughter"
Jess Tonn
Hometown(s): Girard, KS, & Portsmouth, NH
Favorite farm chore: Hand weeding
Favorite farm tool: My hands
Favorite vegetable: Cherry tomatoes
Favorite flower: Sunflower (see above, re: Kansas)
Favorite insect: Dragonfly
Why I grow: "Dirty fingernails + tired muscles = happy heart"
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
As board members of Share the Harvest Farm, we all wear many hats and share a common dedication to unite our community in the interest of health and well-being. We invite everyone with interest in the same to join us!
John Malafronte
Co-Founder
Mariah Whitmore
Chair
Ira Bezoza
Co-Founder & Treasurer
Marjorie Hays
Max Plesset
Jesse Wellen
ADVISORY BOARD
We are fortunate to have a growing network of support from our community, and recently several prominent leaders have joined our advisory board. Together, we look forward to expanding our charitable outreach.
Loretta Davis
Executive Director, The Retreat
Harvey Horowitz, Esq. ז״ל
Mintz & Gold LLC.
Jeff Pennington
Pennington Flowers
Deirdre Silver
Interior Designer
Mark Smith
CEO, Honest Man restaurants
Jennifer Taylor
Vice President and Executive Director for Education and Programs, Wellness Foundation
Edwina von Gal
Landscape Designer and Founder, Perfect Earth Project
