Leslie Randall is an apprentice for 2010 and is excited to start her first full season farming at Charlestown Farm. She started farming last fall on a small organic CSA in Vancouver, B.C. and quickly fell in love with being outside everyday and having her hands in the dirt! She grew up in rural Ohio and graduated from Otterbein College with a degree in Ecology and Environmental Studies. Her interest in farming started after studying abroad in New Zealand and seeing their progressive farm movement. While finishing her degree she volunteered as a nature guide at Stratford Ecological Center, a non-profit educational farm for children and adults. Now that her farming career is started, she's excited to learn as much as she can about sustainable agriculture from Charlestown Farm.

Ellie Andersen is a junior at The Shipley School. She leads family cooking workshops for Farm members and organizes Farm efforts to reach out to our larger community. Ellie's projects include:

1. Comida Saludable Familia Saludable (Healthy Food Healthy Families): A program to enable Guatemalan women with children to trade work for farm membership and access to high quality fruits and vegetables, cooking lesson, and farm social events. This program will help assimilate Phoenixville's burgeoning Guatemalan community and enable members of the community to avoid health problems associated with poor access to healthful foods.

2. Charlestown Gleaning: A program organized with a church serving Phoenixville's Hispanic community to enable church members to glean Farm fields. This program began in 2009 and will be expanded in 2010

3. Youth Farming: Programs for organizations such as the Triskeles Foundations and local colleges and universities such as Swarthmore, Penn, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr to give students the opportunity to work on the Farm to gain exposure to farming, food issues, and an appreciation of the importance of eating healthfully.

Kathy Andersen is one of the founders of the Farm. She resides in the house above the barn where she has collections of daffodils, lilies and clivia which attract enthusiasts form around the world. She has always had flower and vegetable gardens until moving to Charlestown when vegetable growing was turned over to the farm. Kathy is a past president of the American Daffodil Society, North American Lily Society and National Chrysanthemum Society. She currently serves on the Boards of all three societies and is Secretary of the North American Clivia Society. She is a flower show judge in all these societies as well as in the National Garden Club and hold an Associate First Degree Master in the Ohara School of Japanese Flower Arranging. She graduated from Vassar College and received a PhD in Chemistry from University of Michigan.

Marvin Andersen is one of the founders of the farm. He resides in the house above the barn and helps in many aspects of the farming operation. He frequently can be found mowing and weed wacking, making deliveries and pickups, and assisting in any work which needs to be done. Marvin is retired from 39 years as an obstetrician/gynecologist in Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated from the University of Michigan and its medical school. He can be heard playing trumpet at the Phoenixville Farmers' Market before Christmas.

Liz Andersen plants cover crops, organizes Farm events, creates Friday Farm Lunches for farmers and Farm volunteers, and lends a helping hand wherever it is needed. She is one of the founders of Charlestown Farm and the Phoenixville Farmers’ Market which she manages. Liz raises beef cattle, sheep, and poultry on grass at Broadwater Farm and sells meat and eggs at the Farm. She is a graduate of Amherst College and received an MBA from the Wharton School.