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.

Tillie enjoys spending her time with her black lab, Winnie, and enjoys biking, hiking, and 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.

Walt Emann
*Market Garden Assistant*

With a lifelong and deep-rooted passion for plants, animals, people, and the outdoors, Walt brings a rich and varied set of experiences to the Codman team, including wildlife and habitat research in the Sky Islands of Arizona, Forest Service trail crew work in the wildernesses of Montana and Idaho, and habitat restoration and planting native species in the Sourland ecoregion of his home state, New Jersey, where he and his family have cared for a garden and a small flock of chickens. After graduating from the University of Vermont, he recently migrated from his home to nearby Lexington so that he could explore new pastures and possibilities in farming—he couldn’t be more excited about getting his hands dirty, his thumbs green, and growing good food for good people!
When he isn’t in the greenhouses or the fields, Walt spends his time hiking, camping, bird- and bug-watching, foraging, cooking, sketching, and singing.

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!*

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 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