Alexandra Gross is a freelance writer, marketing consultant, food grower, and all around good food nerd. She holds her M.S. in Sustainable Food Systems from Green Mountain College. She is fortunate to have worked on several small farms in Connecticut (Riverbank Farm, Fort Hill Farm, Hunts Brook Farm) and used her skills to start a community garden on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, where she lived and worked for three years. You can find more of Alex's work and musings on food and agriculture at her site: