February Update
Anne once wrote “Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, so if I can stretch it out a bit and have two (or even two and a half), I’m all for it.” Anne woke up early and packed every moment with accomplishment — joyfully filling the days for three kids, exercising, cooking creatively (with the varied scraps going to the worms in her three-story compost bin), reading, writing, drawing paintings which hang on the walls of our home, and running the sales, marketing, and farm relations for her pioneering American cheese business — all the while a perfect neighbor, attentive, elegant, and gracious.
Anne’s energy level is omnipresent and is attracting a growing team dedicated to honoring her work ethic and vision by moving ASLF forward quickly!
Legendary NY locavore June Russell has written our Apprentice Application, which is now LIVE! Please download it and share it with family and friends. Applications for fully-paid 30-day apprenticeships this July and August are due by April 1st.
As of today, we have 17 amazing sustainable farms on board. These farms are the very core of ASLF and are the fuel perpetuating Anne’s legacy. Please visit our Farm Page or newly created Instagram account to read about them — and please seek out the foods they raise to support them directly!
Special thanks to the team at the Food Education Fund for teaching us what it takes to run an exchange program. We are also in debt to NYU Steinhardt Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, Hot Bread Kitchen, and Emma’s Torch for connecting us to so many talented applicants. And to chef Jonah Miller of Huertas Restaurant for making so many introductions on our behalf to leaders in the non-profit world. And also to Sarah Weiner and her team at the Good Food Foundation for delivering us so many good ideas and contacts in the Pacific Northwest!
Anna Harrington, owner of The Rounds, a mostly savory cookie company in Brooklyn, has volunteered to become the Event Production Manager for what is turning out to be a massive ASLF fundraiser powered by the dozens of amazing chefs and artisans who loved Anne. Stay tuned for a Save the Date for this September!
Our amazing Board of Directors, led by Herb Eisenberg, is working to define our Apprentice selection process and form the ASLF orientation program. Stacy Abramson and Robin Friedman knew Anne only tangentially, but it was enough for them to pledge their support to conceive the on-the-farm story telling component of ASLF, which will be so important to cultivating and inspiring the next generation of food and agricultural leaders.
And thank you so much, of course, to the donors who have contributed to the Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund, making all this possible.
Please email info@AnneSaxelbyLegacyFund.org or call us at 917-699-8743 if you have any ideas for us or know of any potential applicants for the summer program! Or just to tell us a story about Anne!
Onward!
Sincerely,
Patrick