Leah Penniman

Contributor

YES! Magazine

Leah Penniman got her farming start as a teen with the Food Project in Boston. She then worked with the Farm School caring for goats and teaching city kids where carrots come from. Leah also worked for and co-managed Many Hands Organic Farm in Barre, Massachusetts for several years, co-founded Youth Grow in Worcester, Mass., and worked with farmers in Ghana, West Africa and Komye, Haiti. She is a full time high school science teacher and works hard on the farm in between. 


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