Need a seasoned non-profit educator/administrator and experienced farmer/builder to help bring your organization or farm to the next step? Need someone to look at existing infrastructure and help design and build new infrastructure whether it’s a greenhouse, wash-pack area or walk-in cooler?

Ben Jaffe brings over 20 years experience working with large and small non-profits, urban farms, community gardens and rural farms. Among many roles he has worked as Community Garden liaison with the Chicago Park District, Apprenticeship Instructor at Windy City Harvest, Associate Director and Director at Chicago Lights Urban Farm and now is co-owner and operator at Earthlore Farm. In these varied roles, he brings experience in direct program delivery, non-profit budgeting and mission-alignment, team management, trauma-informed care via programming and staff management, designing and building infrastructure, gardening on a small scale, farming on a large scale and navigating the landscape of the Chicago region.

Whether its a birds-eye view of organizational health and direction or a micro-lens to hep improve/develop the literal foundations of your operation, Ben can help. E-mail with your needs/questions: earthlorefarmer@gmail.com