Jennifer Hashley, is the Director of the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project (http://www.nesfp.org) at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. New Entry is a beginning farmer training program that assists limited-resource individuals to begin small-scale commercial agriculture in Massachusetts as a way to preserve farmland and to expand consumer access to locally-grown foods. Jennifer is also a vegetable and livestock farmer and raises chickens, eggs, pork, sheep, and rabbit. Jennifer serves on steering committees for the Massachusetts Food Policy Alliance, Mass Grass, and the Concord Agricultural Committee. She is a farm business planning instructor for the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and teaches farm labs for graduate students in the Tufts’ Agriculture, Food and Environment program. Jennifer served as an agricultural Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras (’99-01) and held a staff biologist position at an environmental consulting firm in Idaho. Jennifer holds a Master’s degree in Agricultural Policy from Tufts University and a BS in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Indiana University.
