Mary Seton Corboy - Our CFH (Chief Farm Hand)

Greensgrow co-founder and Chief Farm Hand, Mary Seton Corboy is a home-grown superstar right in our own backyard. Corboy is also founder of the Neighborhood Urban Agriculture Coalition (NUAC), Co-Founder of the Farmers Market Alliance and was recently named on Organic Style magazine's top 50 "Environmental Power List" in the November 2004 issue.

Mary Seton Corboy is a native of the agriculture capital of the world, Washington DC. where her mother was a do-gooder and her father a curmudgeon. She is a perfect cross between the two.

She transplanted herself to Philadelphia twenty odd (and we do mean odd) years ago. She has a BA in Political Science and English Lit from Wilson College and a MA in Political Science from Villanova University-neither of which have ever done a lick of good. She paid off her student loans in full in spite of that.

She founded Greensgrow Farm in 1997, proving once again, that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Prior to starting Greensgrow, Mary was a chef and took care of an estate. She wears size eight shoes and is taller than her sister Eileen.

Hey, Mary was on the radio not too long ago. (Not that she isn't good looking enough for TV.) WHYY 90.1FM All Things Considered and Weekend Edition broadcast her on "This I Believe."