LSP Staff Update

Pam Hartwell has joined the Land Stewardship Project’s Policy Team as an organizer. Hartwell is a graduate of LSP’s Farm Beginnings course (see page 27), and currently farms in southeastern Minnesota’s Winona County. She has a bachelor’s degree in communications from Augsburg University and a master’s degree from the San Francisco Theological Seminary. Hartwell has a long history of working with and running a wide variety of nonprofits in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and California, and has worked on issues related to rape crisis work, sustainability, urban agriculture, public banking, and housing advocacy. For a time, Hartwell served as the mayor and as a city council member in Fairfax, Calif. She is based out of LSP’s southeastern Minnesota office in Lewiston and can contacted at phartwell@landstewardshipproject.org or 612-767-9886.

Taya Schulte has joined LSP’s staff as organizer of the 2024 Family Farm Breakfast (see page 10). Schulte is a Farm Beginnings graduate and, with her partner Seamus Fitzgerald, owns and operates Growing Lots

Farm in Wheeler, Wis. She also works as the community engagement coordinator at Hope Community, Inc. Schulte participated in an LSP fly-in to Washington, D.C., in spring 2023, where she and other LSP members called on Congressional agriculture leaders to be champions in backing programs that support farmers and rural communities dealing with climate change. Schulte also participated in the “Farmers for Climate Action: Rally for Resilience” march in D.C. She can be contacted at tschulte@landstewardshipproject.org.

Sarah Goldman has left LSP’s staff to attend law school. Goldman joined the Policy Team in 2021, and during the past two years did organizing work focused on federal policy (see page 12). She worked with members of LSP’s Federal Farm Bill Committee to create the organization’s 2023 Farm Bill Platform and facilitated fly-ins to D.C., where farmers met with Congressional ag leaders. In the winter and spring of 2022, Goldman worked with groups such as the National Young Farmers Coalition and Midwest Farmers of Color Collective to conduct a survey on farmers’ attitudes related to federal policy.

Pilar Ingram has left LSP’s Farm Beginnings Team to do operations and event coordination for a national organization. During the past year, Ingram worked extensively to facilitate the Farm Beginnings course,

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Would others in your community or a group you’re a part of be interested in learning about the Land Stewardship Project’s work? Staff members are available to speak about our various initiatives. Contact us at info@landstewardshipproject.org or 612-722-6377 to learn more and to get something set up. For details on other ways to connect with LSP, see landstewardshipproject.org/connect-with-lsp.

helping, among other things, to build a more inclusive curriculum. She also worked with specialty crop farmers on climate resiliency and helped organize LSP’s series of 40th Anniversary bonfires. p