Charline Xu

Charline joined American Farmland Trust in May 2023. Their primary responsibilities include outreach, community building, and providing technical assistance to urban and small farms in partnership with American Farmland Trust, USDA’s Farm Service Agency, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Charline is a first-generation U.S.-born member of their family. Raised in New England, they currently reside on Nipmuc and Massachusett land in Eastern Massachusetts. Charline has extensive experience farming mixed vegetables, herbs, and flowers in urban and peri-urban spaces, growing medicine with friends, and supporting mutual aid food distribution efforts. Prior to joining the AFT team, Charline worked in multicultural and multigenerational spaces, using visual art, curriculum development, food, and facilitation as tools to connect with and support under-resourced growers and cultural crop distribution networks.