Erin Hart
Erin is the Director of Health Benefit Services with American HealthCare Group. She developed American HealthCare Group’s Supportive Services program that provides social services and health care services to residents in affordable housing. In 2011, she started the Where to Turn Resource Fair, a bi-annual social service conference for industry professionals in Western PA. She is a frequent speaker in the Pennsylvania healthcare and housing industries. Erin founded Farm to Table Buy Local, a 501c3 non profit. Farm to Table connects farms and food producers with local consumers. The program consists of an annual conference, regional tasting events, a business-to-business network, Lunch & Learn series and ongoing educational programs to teach consumers how to eat healthy, local real food.
Carla Clipper
Carla has worked in the events & marketing space for over 20 years. She began her career in Harrisburg, PA, coordinating, producing and marketing events as part of the revitalization plan of downtown Harrisburg. In 2004, Carla moved to Pittsburgh and began working at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center where she coordinated city-wide conventions, public shows, meetings and other special events-including the annual Farm to Table Conference. After leaving the Convention Center in 2012, Carla became active in her children’s school. She chaired several committees and served as the PTA Vice President. In 2016, Carla reunited with Farm to Table and was hired as the Event Manger. In addition to coordinating the Farm to Table Conference, Carla also coordinates the annual Harvest Tasting, the Farm to Table Virtual Speaker Series, Farm to Table’s participation in various local events and other ongoing educational programs throughout Western PA. She loves connecting farms and food producers with consumers. In addition to working for Farm to Table, Carla also coordinates Farmers’ Markets throughout Western PA. Carla has also served on multiple non-profit boards in Harrisburg & Pittsburgh.
Jackie Page
Jackie is the Culinary Director and Food Coordinator for Farm to Table. She is also the chef and owner of Love Rocks Café and Jackie Kennedy Catering. Cooking comes naturally to Jackie, and she learned everything from her mother by standing next to her in the kitchen before she was old enough to see the top of the stove. Feeding others and making sure they have healthy options is on the top of Jackie’s priority list. So joining the Farm to Table team was a perfect fit.
Danielle Dwan
Danielle is the Community Coordinator at Farm to Table. Her passion for food and ingredients was inherited from her grandmother who hosted weekly Sunday dinners for her extended family. The love expressed through food and hospitality was imprinted on her heart and leads her as she pursues an intimate connection to food. This passion was rekindled in a Fine Dining Internship at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and exposure to Farm to Table Dining. With a Bachelor Degree in Environmental Science from St. Vincent College, she formed a deep connection to the ecosystems of SWPA. Her passion is supporting farmers who tenderly care for our land and connecting consumers to the bounty of ingredients grown in SWPA. As Community Coordinator, she works to connect farms to wholesale and retail outlets and remove barriers for those pursuing local PA agricultural products.
Doug Oster
Doug is the Pittsburgh’s Garden Guru and host of the popular radio show The Organic Gardener on KDKA radio every Sunday morning. He writes a weekly gardening column for The Green Voice, the newsletter for Pittsburgh Earth Day. Oster also appears on KDKA-TV’s Pittsburgh Today Live between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Fridays. He hosted, produced and wrote the one hour special “The Gardens of Pennsylvania” for PBS which won the Emmy for Outstanding Documentary. His fifth book, “The Steel City Garden; Creating a One of a Kind Garden in Black and Gold” demonstrates how to create a garden using Pittsburgh’s favorite colors. The garden personality has a strong following in Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Oster’s most satisfying accomplishment though was founding Cultivating Success, a garden program for foster and adoptive children. The program operates in two counties near Pittsburgh. Everything he does can be found at dougoster.com.
