How to Take Advantage of Farmers’ Markets

Katie Hayes, founder of Community Farmers Markets, provides a beginner’s guide to the farmer’s market experience and benefits of local produce.
Founding Executive Director of Community Farmers Markets, Katie Hayes, provides a beginner’s guide to the farmer’s market experience and benefits of local produce.

Katie is passionate about building healthy communities through supporting small, local businesses.

Additional Info

  • Segment Number: 2
  • Audio File: sharecare/1526sc2b.mp3
  • Featured Speaker: Katie Hayes, Founding Executive Director of Community Farmers Market
  • Guest Bio: Katie-HayesKatie Hayes is the Founding Executive Director of Community Farmers Market. A fourth generation Atlantan, Katie enjoys nothing more than heirloom tomatoes, Georgia peaches, and a heaping pile of boiled peanuts. Katie is passionate about building community through supporting small, local business. Hayes has been an active locavore and community builder since graduating from New York University in 2004.  She has over a decade of experience in management from small entrepreneurial start-ups to large non-profit companies. She has worked at the National Geographic Society, KIPP Charter Schools, and helped start several non-profits, farms, and innovative companies.
  • Length (mins): 10
  • Waiver Received: No
  • Host: Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA