Spade & Spoon editor
Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel
Shy singing linguaphile, gardening writer, and owner of two heelers and no donkeys for them to rustle.
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After working on an organic farm in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, Kisha dug into the policies and structure of the food system as a Master’s student. She graduated from the University of Montana’s Environmental Studies Program where she wrote about farmers and ranchers in the Bitterroot Valley, a manuscript that won the 2005 Richard J. Margolis award. She participated in the Community Food Assessment of Missoula County and was a board member of the Alternative Energy Resource Organization. She's also managed a community garden and coordinating programs for a food bank. Until recently, she managed and acted in the ever-popular, food-centered theater troupe, The Local Yokels.
Although she continues to sing and dance for local food, she mostly writes about it with the intention of making a rather amorphous, complex food system more tangible through the daily lives of those living it, and the organizations and policies out to change it. Her varied experiences from farm to table provide a lot of fodder.
When her calloused hands aren’t on the keyboard, they are (perhaps more importantly) in the dirt.
