Mission
To empower people to connect to food and their community by revitalizing urban spaces and building a resilient food culture.
Vision
We envision a strong network of communities centered around the cultivation of fresh, healthy food.
Our Staff
Adele Pincock, Executive Director
Adele has been an enthusiastic advocate for local enterprise and grassroots organizations for 20 years. She is a creative problem solver, a curious learner, and an inclusive collaborator. Adele’s outgoing nature and authenticity have helped her build support for diverse causes over the years including victim services, public lands stewardship, civic activism, and now, food justice. Adele brings broad experience in organizational leadership, with expertise in awareness education, community engagement, and fundraising.
Adele is a lifelong Utahn who grew up on the Wasatch Front. She has spent the last 23 years in the desert of southern Utah, near Zion National Park where her passion for yardening came to life. She wants to grow vegetables, but has had better luck with herbs and flowering perennials. When not putzing around the yard, Adele enjoys a good road trip (even on dirt roads!), board and card games, camping, time with family and friends, and being in nature – especially if there is a creek or river nearby. She is also an admitted couch potato who is perfectly content spending quiet days at home working on crossword puzzles and watching her yarden grow.
Contact: adele@gulb.org
Soni Scheig, Farm Manager & Small Farm Initiative Program Director (they/them)
Soni’s interest in the food system began in college in Southwest Colorado while working with their school to offer more local, sustainable, fair trade, and humane foods in the cafeterias. Soni’s areas of interest in the food system involve almost all aspects of it—growing food, cooking, waste management, and so on. They believe that the connection food brings to people in a community is extremely important. To learn more about the food system, they pursued an internship on an urban farm in St. Paul, MN which sparked a huge passion for connecting with community by growing food. Years later, Soni is the farm manager of GULB, teaching the next generation of farmers, running the CSA, and connecting community to our local food.
Contact: sfi@gulb.org
Jessica Collette, CSA & Distribution Coordinator and Farm Co-Manager (she/they)
Jessica has been interested in working at the junction of sustainable farming and food justice since spending a few years living in a rural midwestern community that was both a haven for organic farms and a food insecure region. She has worked in various settings, from a food pantry in northern Wisconsin to a homestead in mid-coast Maine to an educational garden in Moab, but her path eventually led her to Salt Lake City to work with the Green Urban Lunch Box. She has spent time working with most of GULB’s programs, but really found her place within Back-Farms. If you find yourself in one of Jess’ gardens, she’ll probably try and convince you that the most exciting garden delicacies are radish seed pods, okra, and nasturtium leaves.
Contact: markets@gulb.org & info@gulb.org
Haley Kline, Back-Farms Program Coordinator (she/her)
Haley grew up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where a love for nature was ingrained at a young age. Her passion for farming, food, community, and health developed during her years in college at Plymouth State University. She’s worked and volunteered at multiple farms, where she learned about everything it takes to run a farm – from working in the fields to running the farmstand. These experiences sparked her passion for local food systems. She wants to continue learning about food justice, permaculture, and urban farming and is so excited to be a part of the Green Urban Lunchbox team.
Haley has lived in Salt Lake City for about 2 years, where she has enjoyed exploring the many landscapes of Utah. She currently works part-time with Salt Lake’s unhoused population. Outside of work Haley’s passions are yoga, music, herbalism, camping, hiking, community, and, of course, gardening!
Our Board
Shawn Kintaudi, Co-Chair
Audit Manager, Eide Bailly LLP
Matt Mulligan, Co-Chair
Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine University of Utah School of Medicine
Kate Wheeler, Secretary
Farm to School Specialist, Utah State Board of Education
Mary Ann Powles
Marie Cornwall
Professor Emerita, Sociology, Back-Farms Senior, FruitShare tree owner
Katie McKeon
Britt Jursik
Owner, Challah Back Dough
Natalie Kane
Program Manager, EATS Park City