staff

Meet our staff
Gloria Tafel (farmers market sales)

This is Gloria's fourth season helping customers at the Doylestown Farmers market.  She also makes bouquets and helps with weddings.

In her "other" life Gloria works at GE as a Microbiologist.

She is also a yoga instructor, amateur photographer and an avid runner.

Czara McKinney (pest control)

Czara keeps the deer, rabbits, geese and tennis balls out of the fields.

Dylan McKinney (Field worker)

When he's not busy making noise you can find Dylan planting shrubs, and building raised beds, pergolas and greenhouses.

April Sparks (farmers market mascot)

April has been charming farmers market customers out of biscuits and any other food you're willing  and sometimes unwilling to give her for, nine years.  She 's especially  fond of cherry tomatoes !  Back on the farm she's our chief lily inspector,  vole catcher and bakery goodies thief, I mean taster.

Janine Harrison (floral designer)

Janine is our floral designer. She grew up in a florist shop and has been a designer for over 30 years ! She will make your wedding or special event wonderful using beautiful, fresh flowers grown sustainably right here on the farm.

This is Janine's fun job. In her other life she is the pastry chef at the William Penn Inn.

Kate Sparks (weeder)

Kate is our chief grower, weeder and bouquet maker. You can usually find her in the fields or greenhouses. When it's really hot look for her in the cooler. She'll be the one drinking the lemonade. On Thursdays and Saturdays she spends her time at the farmers market with her boss, April.  On her days off she is usually busy trying to get her finger nails clean!