Daily News | FarmerJawn’s Christa Barfield takes over Westtown School’s farm, and adds a new mission
In addition to the usual vegetable crop, Barfield wants to create “seed-to-shelf products,” such as sunflower seeds, potato chips, and a hot sauce line.
“I want to create a just food system that perpetuates regenerative and organic health for our customers and the planet,” she said.quit her job in health-care administration in 2018, just before she turned 30. In summer 2018, she started Viva Leaf Tea Co., putting up a backyard greenhouse to grow herbs and renting plots at a community garden in Roxborough. Meanwhile, she founded FarmerJawn as a CSA. She accepted a developer’s offer to rent his greenhouses in Elkins Park.
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