Elizabeth Beggins
Mid-Atlantic Comms & Outreach Senior SpecialistBiography
Elizabeth is the Mid-Atlantic Communications and Outreach Senior Specialist supporting regional projects by creating accessible narratives, strategic outreach, and effective messaging all built on the foundation of authentic relationships. She spent over a decade as a small-scale, specialty crop producer before redirecting her energies to champion regional agriculture. She has worked with school and community garden programs, farmers markets, food safety and food distribution initiatives and, most recently, with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in outreach for the Million Acre Challenge, a collaborative soil health and regenerative agriculture project centered in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Elizabeth earned her degree in Communications from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is a recovering sailor and committed overthinker who appreciates opportunities to kindle conversation and invite connection. On “Chicken Scratch,” a reader-supported publication hosted by Substack, she writes non-fiction essays rooted in optimism. Their two daughters grown and flown, Elizabeth and her husband live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.