Policy Session with Food & Farming Alliance

​​Rebecah Boynton is a writer, food systems coordinator, and activist. She is the director of the Nashville Community Farmers Markets where she develops programs and special events that center around food, culture, community, and economic development. She is the founder of the Tennessee Food and Farming Alliance--a new grassroots organization that works to empower small farmers and food entrepreneurs through advocacy, education, and policy change--which allows her to help facilitate and lobby for new legislation such as the recently-passed Farmers Market Food Unit Bill in 2023. Rebecah has more than 20 years of experience working in food and farming across two states and two continents, and she holds a B.Sc. in Horticulture from Auburn University. She has interned and trained in the mountains of rural Thailand where she worked to establish strawberries as an agritourism crop, and developed and taught two courses at KMUTT University in Bangkok--the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy and Thai Indigenous Knowledge. She is a devoted advocate for her farmers market vendors, for women and other vulnerable members of her community, and a caregiver to her father.