Market Manager - Kellie
Kellie Sebastian has been our Market Manager since 2021. She came to us after moving back here to her hometown, Frankfort Kentucky, and has grown alongside the market, navigating the challenges of an organization that’s always in flux. In her words, “It has been such an honor to work with the Farmers Market these past few years. This incredible organization has given me ample structure and room to grow professionally. Plus, farmers are my favorite group of people.” Her cheerful smile at the Welcome Table is always appreciated by our organization and customers. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family and digging in her garden.
Online sales Manager - KATELYN
Katelyn Pinkston started as our Online Sales Manager in the summer of 2024.
Katelyn is no stranger to agriculture, as she grew up on a small family farm in North Central Kansas, where she helped raise crops and livestock. Before joining the market team, she served as an agricultural educator and FFA advisor at Anderson County High School in Lawrenceburg, KY.
She looks forward to working with the market's vendors and consumers and values all that the Farmers Market does within the Frankfort community. When she’s not at the market, she is spending time with her husband and son.
FARM to Frankfort Delivery - Abby
Abby Clark’s love of our farmers market stems back to 2011, when she interned for one of our current vendors. As a college student she admired Connie and Trina, two local women leading the way in their local food movement. After college, she managed various community gardens, two Veterans Ag Therapy Farms and sold produce to local restaurants.
Now as a mom of 3, she understands the current food dilemma that much more. This will be her 6th year with our farmers market serving as delivery driver, delivering locally-sourced food and smiles to our community one box at a time. She is proud to be a part of our women-driven powerhouse of a food chain, if you haven’t signed up for Thursday delivery, she highly recommends it!
Market Bookkeeper - RISA
After over a decade as a small business owner in Frankfort, a profession change has invited Risa to dedicate her work to connecting community to food and nature. As a long-time patron of the Market and Mother of two, she appreciated right away the opportunity to buy fresh, local ingredients online, and she served as the Market’s online sales manager for a year before shifting to doing environmental education with the State. She values community, farmers and wide-spread accessibility to healthy foods and looks forward to continuing to support the work of the Market as the Market Bookkeeper. She lives with her two children, and enjoys plants, cooking and the arts.
AMERICORPS FRESH FOOD ACCESS MEMBER/Food Share coordinator - EDDIE
As the Friends of the Franklin County Farmers Market Americorp Member, Eddie Fowler is using his love for local food systems to help promote and distribute many of the Markets food access programs. By running programs like the South Frankfort Food Share and the community gardens Eddie wants to bring his passion working in the community to help everyone have access to fresh, nutritious, local produce. You can catch Eddie at the Welcome Table every Saturday and at Dolly Graham park every other Tuesday organizing the South Frankfort Food Share.
Eddie has been organizing and managing community gardens in Frankfort since 2018. He is also a garden manager with the Frankfort Independent Schools helping manage many of the Farm to School green spaces.
VISTA Fresh Food Access/Farm to school coordinator - Connie
Connie Lemley serves as the Friends of the Market’s VISTA Fresh Food Access Coordinator and Farm to School Coordinator for Frankfort Independent Schools. Connie has been involved with the market as a farmer/vendor and now as staff and advocate for 20 years. She is focused on market sustainability, food access work, farm to school efforts, and building a more vibrant local food system.
Connie and her husband Andy have lived and farmed in Franklin County since 2004. Connie also serves on the boards of the Jane Julian Farm and Franklin Co. Emergency Community Food Pantry and is passionate about growing fresh food access in our community.
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Farmers Market Board of Directors
Maggie Dungan (Salad Days Farm), President
Lee Ann Jones (Happy Jack’s Pumpkins & Produce), Vice-President
Jack Kuhn (Kuhndog Ridge Farm), Treasurer
Emily Buckler (Buckler Farms), Secretary
Chelsea Barbour (High Five Farm)
Diana Hogan (Mefford Family Farm)
John Scott, Community Board Member