brooke budner and caitlyn galloway

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Brooke Budner is a co-owner of Little City Gardens, an urban food gardener and artist. She has worked extensively in the realm of gardening and food-security activism. In early 2007, Brooke turned a vacant city lot in the Mission District of San Francisco into a thriving vegetable garden, and a year later co-founded Little City Gardens. Previously, she served as the coordinator and manager of the SF Victory Gardens Project Backyard Garden Program. She spent two summers as the garden instructor with The Colima Project, leading San Francisco State University students and town members in a collaborative garden build. Brooke also currently works as the illustrator and artist for The Greenhorns, an advocacy and media organization that supports the national resurgence of young farmers. Trained as a painter and printmaker at the Rhode Island School of Design, and as a farmer at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center as well as on organic farms on both the East and West Coasts, Brooke works to merge the fields of food production and art-making into a reflective and active social practice.

Caitlyn Galloway is co-owner of Little City Gardens. She is also a practicing artist and professional sign painter. She has devoted much of her career to understanding and re-envisioning food systems, both on the East and West Coasts. After graduating with an art degree from UC Santa Barbara in 2003, she served for three years as Department Manager and Board member for the Isla Vista Food Cooperative in Goleta, California, where she helped direct business planning and food purchasing, and from 2005-2007 she lived in New York City where she installed and maintained rooftop gardens and greenroofs. While there, she also volunteered with the non-profit Just Food, helping to connect urban residents with local farmers and local produce, and was an active member of her neighborhood community garden. Caitlyn is excited about combining her passions for farming, art and building community through Little City Gardens' venture in urban agriculture.