Kristy Apostolides

Kristy Apostolides has twenty years of international experience in local food systems and sustainable agriculture, with skills ranging from organic vegetable production and field research to program development and volunteer management. As a consultant, she advocates on behalf of local farms and a regional food system by organizing educational meetings between farmers and public officials, event planning, curriculum development, grant-writing, academic and project-based research, has taught workshops and presented findings in both professional and academic conferences and symposia in Europe and the US. She has grown and supported farmers' markets, CSAs, and small- to mid-sized farms through strategic planning, branding, and promotion assistance and is excited to expand her experience beyond the retail market to schools and institutions in the lower Hudson Valley. She has a BSc in Plant Sciences from Cornell University and an MSc in Sustainable Agriculture from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh).