Julie Fine

Julie Fine has experience as an organic farmer, an agricultural researcher, and farm service provider. Through relationships with farmers across the Northeast, Julie has seen the agricultural and climate challenges that food producers face and is dedicated to working together toward site-specific solutions for climate risk, soil health, and sustainable food production. Julie worked on dairy and vegetable farms in MA, CA, and New Zealand for many years before settling with her family in western Massachusetts. In 2018, Julie earned an MS in plant and soil science from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at UMass Amherst, researching cover crops and soil health. She has served on the Northeast SARE technical committee, as a Climate Adaptation Fellow, and as the founding director of Harvest Against Hunger in Seattle, WA. Before that, she taught organic farming and gardening at the UC Santa Cruz farm and Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. In her free time, you can find Julie drinking coffee, wrangling two teenagers, or fighting back the weeds in her garden.