IL Community Agroforester
Savanna Institute
State: IL
(w) (608) 448-6432
About
At the Savanna Institute, Kaitie leads the Illinois Demonstration Farm program and helps build community through agroforestry education across the state and beyond. Her background in anthropology (MA 2015, SIUC) helps illuminate the deep ecological and social connections created through agriculture and informs her work in building bridges between landowners, farmers, industry builders, and researchers. Kaitie is drawn to agroforestry for its powerful reimagining of a future that is abundant, perennial, and beautiful. In addition to planting trees and talking about pawpaws, she teaches community classes on seasonal cooking, fermentation, and canning and runs Red Crib Acres, a small apple orchard on rented land, with her husband John Williams.
Projects
| LNC22-473 | Novice-to-Producer Agroforestry Education: Linking demonstration farms to online learning, apprenticeships, & communities of practice |
| LNC19-429 | Establishing a Network of Agroforestry Research & Demonstration Farms |