Jennifer Hashley is the Trisha Perez Kennealy and Michael Kennealy Director for the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project. She is a leader in local food systems work focusing on beginning farmer development. Her role at New Entry includes building community partnerships, developing new programs and services, mentoring and supporting project staff, securing sustainable resources for all program operations, writing grants, strategic planning, and overseeing incubator training farm site infrastructure and a multi-year sustainable agriculture training curriculum in specialty crops and livestock production for limited resource farmers.



Hashley’s efforts at New Entry have transformed it into a nationally recognized farmer training program with multiple components – training and technical assistance, marketing, finding land and resources, hands-on learning at training farms, accessing government programs and resources, and conducting training for other incubator farm and community food security projects across the US. As part of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Agriculture Food and the Environment program, Hashley is also an Agricultural Science and Policy lab instructor, helping to bridge the gap between graduate students’ classroom learning and practical, farm-based education.

Presented to the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Green Living Seminar Series, March 29, 2023.

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