Susan Boyle and Benton Brown interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2016-01-05
Benton Brown and Susan Boyle discuss the launch and operation of their affinage, Crown Finish Caves, in Brooklyn, New York. From constructing the facility to conducting research and development in their quasi mold laboratory, they share the experience of consciously entering into the international legacy trade of affinage, one not very well established in the U.S. With early careers in sculpture and environmental education,…
Robert LaValva interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2016-02-16
Founding Director of the New Amsterdam Market, Robert LaValva, discusses the arc of his career from New York City Planner with the Department of Sanitation (instrumental in designing New York City's organic waste recycling program) to the founder and producer of New York's City's first purveyor's market in almost a century--the New Amsterdam Market, which helped usher in a new food craft and merchant…
Brian Sapp interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31
Brian Sapp, Director of Livestock at White Oak Pastures, discusses the meat industry, meat economics, daily work "on the line," and how to create a workplace where the the physical work of processing livestock results in high quality meat and employee health and retention. He shares his personal background as a Floridian and as child on a family caladium farm, describing how he learned…
Will Harris interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31
Traditional cowboy Will Harris III describes the dramatic changes he has undertaken to maintain and grow his family's farm - making it one of the most bio-diverse and progressive operations in the United States. He discusses growing up as an only child on the farm, leaving to work for another company and returning to a changed consumer and ecological environment, and how he risked…
Jennifer Kate Harris interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31
Jennifer ("Jenni") Kate Harris is the fifth generation of the Harris family to lead White Oak Pastures. She describes finding her place in the business during a time of transition in US agriculture and in consumer awareness. She talks about how marketing and selling the meat, eggs, pet treats, leather goods, and more, that the farm produces brings together every aspect of the business…
Contributor:
Faber Cullen, Makalé - Occupational Folklife Project - Harris, Jennifer Kate
Date:2017
Audio Recording
Amber Harris interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31
Amber Harris oversees all aspects of White Oak Pastures' "added-value" items, including leather, soap and candles - from design and production to marketing and sales. Having formerly worked as a criminal investigator in the U.S. Federal probation system in Atlanta, she came to her White Oak Pastures work by following her heart and future wife, Jennifer ("Jenni") Kate Harris, the 5th Generation to run…
Jodi Harris Benoit interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30
Jodi Harris Benoit, youngest of the Harris family daughters, discusses how closeness to her family and affection for her small, rural hometown of Bluffton, Georgia, guided her career decisions. She shares her educational path and the on-farm learning that led her to define and craft her position at White Oak Pastures as its first Manager of Agrotourism. Jodi describes the contributions her work makes…
Laura Mortelliti interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30
Laura Mortelitti, Multi-Media Manager for White Oak Pastures, discusses her rural New York upbringing, her early experiences with livestock, interest in visual landscapes, communication and regenerative farming that have crafted her education and career to-date. Laura majored in animal science at Cornell University and completed graduate work in documentary photography, leading to her being hired for the inaugural position of multi-media manager/on-farm photographer for…
Laura Wall interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30
Laura Wall describes her work designing and sewing leather goods for a new production arm of the White Oak Pastures farm - goods crafted from the leather harvested during meat processing. She talks about her past craft work and education in animal science as training for an unusual and exciting farm job.
John Benoit interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30
Atlanta-born and Fitzgerald, Georgia-raised, John Edward Benoit discusses his trajectory from a college business major, with minimal farm experience, to the Director of Livestock for a multi-species 150-year-old Georgia farm that is pioneering rural re-development through its agricultural and business practices. John discusses the transition from a cattle ranch to a multi-species farm and the technical, physical, social and mental agility needed to do…
Contributor:
Benoit, John E. - Occupational Folklife Project - Faber Cullen, Makalé
Date:2017
Audio Recording
Ali Civelek interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30
Ali Civelek, a White Oak Pastures' butcher, shares his reasons for taking on a position at the farm, his transition from work in urban restaurant kitchens to a rural abattoir, how work and home life merge in a small American town, and the tools of his trade.
Jean Turn interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31
Jean Turn shares the arc of her career, from physics major to agricultural chemical sales director to librarian to comptroller for White Oak Pastures. She reflects on her career and her unintentional diversion from her generation's conventional female path of marriage and motherhood. Jean discusses her family's legacy rural General Store and how the experiences of growing up as a shop kid informed her…
Contributor:
Faber Cullen, Makalé - Occupational Folklife Project - Turn, Jean O.
Audio RecordingSusan Boyle and Benton Brown interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2016-01-05 Benton Brown and Susan Boyle discuss the launch and operation of their affinage, Crown Finish Caves, in Brooklyn, New York. From constructing the facility to conducting research and development in their quasi mold laboratory, they share the experience of consciously entering into the international legacy trade of affinage, one not very well established in the U.S. With early careers in sculpture and environmental education,…
Audio RecordingRobert LaValva interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2016-02-16 Founding Director of the New Amsterdam Market, Robert LaValva, discusses the arc of his career from New York City Planner with the Department of Sanitation (instrumental in designing New York City's organic waste recycling program) to the founder and producer of New York's City's first purveyor's market in almost a century--the New Amsterdam Market, which helped usher in a new food craft and merchant…
Audio RecordingBrian Sapp interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31 Brian Sapp, Director of Livestock at White Oak Pastures, discusses the meat industry, meat economics, daily work "on the line," and how to create a workplace where the the physical work of processing livestock results in high quality meat and employee health and retention. He shares his personal background as a Floridian and as child on a family caladium farm, describing how he learned…
Audio RecordingWill Harris interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31 Traditional cowboy Will Harris III describes the dramatic changes he has undertaken to maintain and grow his family's farm - making it one of the most bio-diverse and progressive operations in the United States. He discusses growing up as an only child on the farm, leaving to work for another company and returning to a changed consumer and ecological environment, and how he risked…
Audio RecordingJennifer Kate Harris interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31 Jennifer ("Jenni") Kate Harris is the fifth generation of the Harris family to lead White Oak Pastures. She describes finding her place in the business during a time of transition in US agriculture and in consumer awareness. She talks about how marketing and selling the meat, eggs, pet treats, leather goods, and more, that the farm produces brings together every aspect of the business…
Audio RecordingAmber Harris interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31 Amber Harris oversees all aspects of White Oak Pastures' "added-value" items, including leather, soap and candles - from design and production to marketing and sales. Having formerly worked as a criminal investigator in the U.S. Federal probation system in Atlanta, she came to her White Oak Pastures work by following her heart and future wife, Jennifer ("Jenni") Kate Harris, the 5th Generation to run…
Audio RecordingJodi Harris Benoit interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30 Jodi Harris Benoit, youngest of the Harris family daughters, discusses how closeness to her family and affection for her small, rural hometown of Bluffton, Georgia, guided her career decisions. She shares her educational path and the on-farm learning that led her to define and craft her position at White Oak Pastures as its first Manager of Agrotourism. Jodi describes the contributions her work makes…
Audio RecordingLaura Mortelliti interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30 Laura Mortelitti, Multi-Media Manager for White Oak Pastures, discusses her rural New York upbringing, her early experiences with livestock, interest in visual landscapes, communication and regenerative farming that have crafted her education and career to-date. Laura majored in animal science at Cornell University and completed graduate work in documentary photography, leading to her being hired for the inaugural position of multi-media manager/on-farm photographer for…
Audio RecordingLaura Wall interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30 Laura Wall describes her work designing and sewing leather goods for a new production arm of the White Oak Pastures farm - goods crafted from the leather harvested during meat processing. She talks about her past craft work and education in animal science as training for an unusual and exciting farm job.
Audio RecordingJohn Benoit interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30 Atlanta-born and Fitzgerald, Georgia-raised, John Edward Benoit discusses his trajectory from a college business major, with minimal farm experience, to the Director of Livestock for a multi-species 150-year-old Georgia farm that is pioneering rural re-development through its agricultural and business practices. John discusses the transition from a cattle ranch to a multi-species farm and the technical, physical, social and mental agility needed to do…
Audio RecordingAli Civelek interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-30 Ali Civelek, a White Oak Pastures' butcher, shares his reasons for taking on a position at the farm, his transition from work in urban restaurant kitchens to a rural abattoir, how work and home life merge in a small American town, and the tools of his trade.
Audio RecordingJean Turn interview conducted by Makalé Faber Cullen, 2017-05-31 Jean Turn shares the arc of her career, from physics major to agricultural chemical sales director to librarian to comptroller for White Oak Pastures. She reflects on her career and her unintentional diversion from her generation's conventional female path of marriage and motherhood. Jean discusses her family's legacy rural General Store and how the experiences of growing up as a shop kid informed her…