Category Alumni Spotlights

Jack Seitz ’05 is a true example of the interdepartmental goals of the College Farm. This history major’s experience with farming in the College Garden (before it became the College Farm) helped guide his path to a Fulbright fellowship, Master’s… Continue Reading →

Meet Sharon! She graduated Dickinson with a double major in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Italian Studies in 2011. Sharon was first exposed to the farm through her first-year seminar called “Food: Eating, Growing, and Globalization” – her last choice –… Continue Reading →

Meet Elizabeth! She graduated in 2020 with a double major in French and Francophone Studies and Studio Art with a Food Studies Certificate. She has always had an interest in food and sustainable agriculture. She joined us as a student… Continue Reading →

Meet Kristiana Amberger! She was an environmental studies major at Dickinson and graduated in 2014. Food has always been important to Kristiana, but she did not become interested in farming until she had lab field trips out to the farm…. Continue Reading →

Meet Odelya Matter, an exchange student from the Arava Institute whose studying at Dickinson this semester and working on the College Farm this summer! Odelya is originally from Jerusalem, Israel but has traveled extensively. Her first experience on a farm was… Continue Reading →

Meet Lizzie Grabowski ‘17, an education and outreach extraordinaire! Lizzie first volunteered on the farm during Weed n’ Feed her freshman year. She then joined the farm crew as a student farmer her junior year thanks to former second year… Continue Reading →

Meet Daniel Grover ‘12, a farming and cheesemaking extraordinaire! Daniel first got his start farming as a camp counselor for the FARM Institute on Martha’s Vineyard and knew he wanted to be involved with the college farm once returning to… Continue Reading →

Meet one of our most enthusiastic and energetic farm alums- Rachel Lerner ’19! Rachel graduated from Dickinson this past May with an Environmental Studies major and Food Studies Certificate. On campus she lived in the Treehouse, worked on the College… Continue Reading →

Meet Wesley Lickus ‘17, an Environmental Science major from Maine. Wes started working on the farm the first semester of his sophomore year and from then on he was hooked. He worked until graduation and for half a summer before… Continue Reading →