Jennifer  Brodsky | Founder

Jennifer’s passion for local food and farms began in 1998 with work on a small farm on the craggy coast of Inismore, Ireland. There, farmers grew astonishingly beautiful vegetables, celebrated by the community, in soil made by the hands of settlers, from sand and seaweed dragged from the ocean’s edge. She was hooked. Jennifer brought her new-found passion for hand-grown food back to the Philadelphia area and became The Fair Food Farmstand’s first volunteer.

Jennifer’s expertise in sustainable food developed during 20+ years of hands-on C-Suite leadership experience leading farms, non profit organizations and in dynamic retail operations. Her farming career began in 2003 at the 138 acre Willow Creek Orchards, Montgomery County’s first certified organic farm, as the General Manager of the 5000 sq ft on-farm market, pick-your-own operation and community engagement.  In subsequent years, Jen was recruited to GM and Chief Operating Officer positions to lead food and farm businesses and nonprofits though startup, growth and contraction phases.

Jennifer co-founded and co-lead Kitchen Table Consultants, a leading food and farming business consulting firm for eight years before founding True North Collective.  Jennifer guided the organization's national growth through innovative and values based marketing, branding and businesses development strategies.  Her client work focused on the intersection between nonprofit and government organizations and the farmers and food producers they seek to serve.

Jennifer and her husband Eric love living in the woods along the banks of the Delaware River in Upper Bucks County, PA, and get to Vermont as often as they can.  They can often be found on the water, canoeing down river, or fly fishing the trout streams of the Northeast.  Every year she picks more berries and tree fruit than anyone could ever make good use of (that’s where the big freezer comes in), and her favorite crop to grow is garlic.