Josh Viertel, Yale Sustainable Food Project

Josh Viertel is a co-director and co-founder of the Yale Sustainable Food Project. In this role he has aided in directing Yale’s transition to a local sustainable food program, built and managed an organic farm on campus and worked to cultivate awareness and enjoyment of a meaningful food culture at Yale. Prior to his work at Yale, he started a small vegetable farm in Connecticut and taught at the Mountain School of Milton Academy in Vermont. He studied philosophy and literature and is an avid baker, fisherman, and farmer. Josh will leave Yale at the end of September to take up his new role as President of Slow Food USA.