Welcome Landry: Our New Hands and Feet Fellow
Landry Werth
Community Engagement Coordinator
Meet Landry Werth, our Community Outreach Coordinator through her Hands and Feet of Asheville Fellowship. She will be supporting AGW's reforestation initiative and tree nursery management, as well as helping manage our growing reforestation initiatives and communicating AGW's mission to the general public.
Landry comes to us from Bethesda, Maryland and this is her first time in Asheville. She’s currently residing in West Asheville and absolutely loves it!
Landry has always felt a strong connection towards helping the planet. She attended University of Dayton and earned her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Biology. During her time there she was involved in Sustainability Club, Insect Ecology Lab, worked at the recreation center as a facility operations supervisor, and interned with the Hanley Sustainability Institute where she helped with their sustainability project: a solar panel pollinator prairie.
She moved back home to Maryland after graduating, and volunteered for a semester in D.C. public elementary schools as a FRESHFARM FoodPrints classroom assistant. This program integrates gardening, cooking, and nutrition education into the curriculum through a model of partnerships, classroom gardens, standards-based lessons, cafeteria connections and food access. She helped facilitate hands-on lessons that get students excited about growing, preparing and enjoying fresh, local whole foods with the goal of improving health outcomes of children and families.
For two years she worked as a farm crew member on a USDA Organic Produce Farm in Brookeville, MD. Farm work is no joke! Her job included a variety of tasks, including: harvesting, cultivating (manually and with machinery), post-harvest care, running CSAs and farmer’s market stands, packaging orders, and educating high schoolers and local community members about the importance of sustainable agriculture. She loved working there, but felt ready to relocate and challenge herself.
She is so excited that her job simultaneously helps the planet and the local community. She has always been drawn to doing important hands-on work, and looks forward to seeing where this year takes her.
Outside of work Landry loves listening to music, puzzles, hiking, biking, cooking, exploring, spending time with friends and family, and hanging out with all of the animals!
Fun facts about Landry: She was born in San Jose, CA. She worked at a dog park as a Bark Ranger (essentially just dog-sitting the pups while their owners drank adult beverages). She attended the same high school as Katie Ledecky, the most decorated Olympian in women's swimming!
