Team
Codman Community Farms has a growing, dedicated and committed staff, supported by a volunteer Board of Directors.
Pete Lowy
Farm Manager
Pete Lowy has been the Farm Manager at Codman Community Farms since 2016. Before Codman, he founded Pete & Jen’s Backyard Birds with his wife, Jen Hashley. Originally hailing from New York, he has made his home in MA since 2003 and has been growing vegetables and livestock for over 20 years. Pete is passionate about developing new and innovative farming systems, raising livestock on pasture, and growing CCF into a thriving community farm for all to enjoy. Pete and Jen are returned Peace Corps volunteers and, as time allows, love to continue to travel the world with their son Abe, exploring new cultures in search of exotic farmers’ markets and tasty local foods!
Senior Managers
Ginger Reiner
Finance and HR
Ginger joined the Codman Farm Board in 2017 and served as the Treasurer from 2018-2021. In 2021, she transitioned from Board member to staff and joined us as the Sr. Manager for Finance & HR. Ginger manages our financial operations and provides support to our growing staff and many other aspects of our operations. Ginger lives in Lincoln with her husband and two kids and, when not at the farm, can often be found on a bicycle.
Abigail Adams
Education, Community Engagement and Marketing
Abby joined the Codman Farm Board in 2022 and served as Chair of the Education Committee. In 2024, she transitioned from Board member to staff and joined us as the Sr. Manager for Education, Community Engagement, and Marketing. Abby has deep ties within Lincoln and surrounding communities, having served on boards and committees of Lincoln Nursery School, First Parish in Lincoln, and the METCO Coordinating Committee, to name a few. Abby lives in Lincoln with her husband and three daughters.
Tillie Loeffelholz
Farm Chef and
Store Operations
Tillie joined the Codman team wanting to get even closer to working directly with food grown locally after working at farm-to-table restaurants in the Boston area (Dear Annie and Field & Vine).
As our first ever full-time Farm Chef, she is excited about creating dishes for the Codman community using seasonal ingredients from the farm.
Tillie is a recent New England transplant originally from Iowa. She moved from Seattle to attend BU’s Gastronomy Program after changing careers from clinical research to follow her passion through food.
If she’s not in the kitchen, Tillie can be found camping, biking, hiking, and exploring the New England outdoors.
Aimee Pappas
Farm Operations
After transitioning from education to agriculture in 2020, Aimee started her farming journey working with cut flowers and livestock in Western Massachusetts. Growing up on the West Coast she was always outside, camping, gardening, and exploring. Finding agriculture felt like a homecoming for her outdoorsy spirit. She’s excited to continue her journey at Codman, working outside and tending to the needs of the livestock and the land.
In her free time, she enjoys adventuring with her dog Misha, traveling, eating good food, and doing all sorts of crafting.
Staff
Amy Doucette
Farm Store Manager
Amy comes to Codman after many years working at another local farm. She is excited for this new chapter and getting to know the wonderful Codman community!
Amy grew up a few towns over in Westford, MA where she fell in love with growing food in her ever-expanding garden. Since graduating college with a degree in nutrition and dietetics, she has found a variety of ways to share her passion. From teaching basic nutrition and gardening to students around the state, to starting her own small microgreen farm, to managing a farm store, she has found that she is happiest when surrounded by plants and food, and others who feel the same way.
When not working (or gardening), Amy enjoys spending time with her rescue pup, Ace, practicing and teaching yoga and acro-yoga, baking, and traveling.
Alexis Yioulos
Market Garden Manager
Alexis (they/them) is originally from Salem, MA, where they grew up in a Greek family where cooking was an art form and way of life, giving them a great appreciation for building cultural connections through food. They've been a veggie farmer in and around the greater Boston area for almost a decade, driven by connecting people, growing tasty, clean food, and caring for the land. Currently residing in Jamaica Plain, they enjoy strolling around the arboretum, eating with and cooking for loved ones, community organizing, traveling, and playing music with friends.
Gracelynn Hyrns
Livestock Assistant
Gracelynn recently moved from West Michigan, where she got her start in agriculture at nearby dairy farms, and learned about livestock care from her great-grandparents as they had horses and a few cattle. Gracelyn’s love of farming (and cattle, especially) has grown over the last few years. In 2022, she joined the county’s young farmers and rancher committee and came to realize the power and beauty of combining community with agriculture and how important it became in her life. She is excited to embrace her new role at Codman and learn all there is to know about tending a diverse livestock farm.
In her free time Gracelynn loves being outside, riding horses, camping, spending time with her dog Rory and photographing rodeos and livestock!
Meghan Powers
Market Garden Assistant
Meghan brings a lifelong passion for growing plants and caring for the landscape. They have extensive experience covering plant science, microbiology, agroecology, and bioengineering. After years of working as a field scientist for local sustainable agriculture startups, Meghan is excited to return to the land and use their knowledge to grow both plants and the community. They love to help people feel connected to their food and the land around them and are always happy to talk about the many complex relationships that make up regenerative agriculture.
A New England native, Meghan grew up in rural Connecticut and has lived in the Boston area for the past 6 years. Outside of farming, Meghan enjoys foraging, cooking, arts and crafts, yoga, and sharing food with friends. They try to appreciate the sunset every evening and love to spend time with their wife and cat at home in Arlington.
Kate Rogers
Education and Office Assistant
Kate is excited to join the Codman Farm team! Playing a role in local agriculture has been central to Kate's life since 2018 - when she began working on a veggie farm in New Jersey. Since then, Kate has worked and volunteered on a variety of farm operations, always leaving a day of work inspired by the good people, food, and conversations that come along with the job. Kate found Codman Farm after returning from an internship in Italy, where she was exposed to working with livestock for the first time and fell in love with heritage breed pigs and cows. She believes sharing knowledge is one of the most vital parts of agriculture in our community, almost as important as sharing delicious meals. She is excited to be an educator within our wonderful Codman community! Kate loves to chat, so if you ever see her walking around the farm, say hi!
Super Volunteers
David Ries
Volunteer at Large
David Ries has been a longtime friend of the farm, serving as a board member, volunteer, tractor-driver, wood-splitter, head mower, and delivery driver, among other titles and responsibilities. David knows the farm better than just about anyone, and his presence and kindness are a gift to the whole farm. If you see him out and about be sure to say hi, he loves to chat and would welcome an opportunity to share farm tales…
Poppy & Portia
Abe with Portia looking at the camera this time!
Abe, Poppy (on left) & Portia
Some of our two hardest working and most dedicated farmhands are our two livestock guardian dogs, Portia and our newest pup, Poppy! They spend their days happily out in the fields, keeping an eye on our birds, doing what their ancestors have been bred to do for hundreds of years. They enjoy the love and attention from our farmers and volunteers, but if you see them out in the fields, please admire them from a distance - they’re working!
Poppy is an Akbash and Great Pyrenees mix, and Portia is part Great Pyrenees and part Akbash/Anatolian Shepherd.
Board of Directors
Codman is overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors from diverse professional backgrounds, some of whom have joined the Board for second time, after a decade or two of doing other things. New Board members are elected every year at the Annual Meeting to serve a three-year term.
Our 2024 Board of Directors (not pictured: Jon Ferris, Nick Whitman)
Our 2024 Board of Directors are:
Jason Curtin, President
Caroline Fiore, Vice President
Carol Carmody, Treasurer
Jeff Patterson, Clerk
Philip Ayoub
Sarah Bishop
Bill Carey
Hathaway Ellis
Jon Ferris
Sherry Haydock
Bill Hobbs
Steve Hoenig
John LeClaire
Craig Nicholson
Rich Rosenbaum
Nick Whitman