Amanda Storey

Amanda Storey is the Executive Director of Jones Valley Teaching Farm, where she’s been an enthusiastic advocate, volunteer and employee for 10 years- four of which have been spent in her current role as Executive Director. Amanda has used the power of growing food to transform and improve the pre-K - 12 educational experience. Her journey from marketing manager at Cooking Light magazine, Assistant VP of community Health and Wellness at United Way, Director of Programs at the Community Food bank, and volunteering at the Jones Valley Teaching Farm led her to her passion: using food production as a lens for learning and leading.

Under her leadership, she has designed a program that includes full-time instructors for each of the school garden sites. She continues to refine the metrics for measuring the impact on school curricula and spearheaded a capital campaign that allowed the Jones Valley Teaching Farm to purchase a downtown farm, located adjacent to a public housing project. This farm provides seeds, seedlings, compost, tools and garden supplies to community gardeners. The Good School Food is a hands-on food model that connects students to food, farming and the culinary arts through standards-based, cross-curricular lessons during the school day. The program has seven school partners, located on elementary, middle school and high school campuses, each of which has an on- site garden. Through this program, students grow, harvest, cook and sell the produce from the farm, in addition to after-school programs where they learn th connection between sustainable farming practice and science.