Noah Munro is a passionate entrepreneur who helps farm and food brands create the businesses of their dreams with smart financial and marketing strategies. His deep respect for clients and concern for their success stems from his roots as a small business owner.

In 2006, Noah co-founded the Mill Fudge Factory and Café in Bristol, New Hampshire. Noah grew the company from 0 to 15 employees; generated more than $400,000 in e-commerce sales; built a community of 15,000 followers using SEO, email, and social media; and earned the Mill Fudge Factory recognition as one of the top 3 fudge companies in America by MSN.com, one of the top 5 fudge shops in America by “Cooking with Paula Deen” magazine, and the Best Fudge in New Hampshire by New Hampshire magazine.

While overseeing the fudge company, Noah earned his MBA magna cum laude at Babson College, the #1 school for entrepreneurship in the U.S. After graduation, eager to share his experience and success with other food business owners, he founded Taste Profit Marketing.

In 2021, Noah took on part-ownership and the role of Senior Consultant at Kitchen Table Consultants, a financial consulting firm for farm and food businesses. Today, Kitchen Table Consultants and Taste Profit Marketing are sister companies helping clients achieve profitability with a range of financial and marketing services.

Noah, also a Dairy Decision Consultant with the Center for Dairy Excellence, has helped more than 100 different farm and food entrepreneurs build recognizable brands, launch websites, create marketing plans, and achieve financial wellbeing in their businesses.

Rebecca is a marketing strategist, driving growth in small to mid-sized businesses since 1997.  Her goal is to educate, enrich and empower business owners to find their definition of success.  She was raised in a family retail business and launched her first company, an event production business called Millennium 3 Productions, during her freshman year of college at Penn State.  Since then, she’s earned a Masters in Business Administration, in Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development, from George Washington University, while serving as a GM in the hospitality industry.  In the early 2000s, Rebecca pivoted her career into specialty food e-commerce and retail, followed by years of General Management of Greensgrow Farm, a nationally recognized urban farm, CSA, market and nonprofit organization in Philadelphia.  In 2014, she dovetailed that work into consulting and coaching local food and farm business owners.  She uses her financially focused approach as the foundation of her business coaching process, as well as drawing from various curriculum and tools that we’ve developed from her one-on-one work with farmers and makers.

Rebecca has a passion for local, sustainable vibrant agriculture and food and strongly believes in the power of food as medicine and in the positive environmental impact of sustainable practices; drawn to the industry over 10 years ago after her own food-driven health recovery journey.  At the intersection of her personal connection to keeping “good food” on the table and the marketing training of her career, Rebecca aspires to strengthen the local food movement via coaching businesses through pathways to financial viability and long term success.  Rebecca has successfully directed sales and marketing strategies that result in targeted sales increases and business growth.  She enjoys a financial problem-solving approach to business strategy assessment. Rebecca has also served as an adjunct strategic marketing instructor in the MBA program at Temple University and developed a curriculum for farmers and makers.  Rebecca and her husband Ben also formerly owned and operated Frimmer Family Farms, a hydroponic lettuce urban farm in Philadelphia.

Rebecca has enjoyed being a workshop presenter in the past at conferences and events including The EcoFarm Conference, CAFF’s beginning farmer intensive, Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture’s (PASA) Farming for the Future conference, Grow NYC’s webinar series, Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York’s conference, National Good Food Network conference, the InTents Conference, the Mid Atlantic Fruit & Vegetable Growers Convention, California Small Farms Conference, Arizona Small Food Conference, among others.  

Rebecca resides in Morro Bay California and is originally from Pennsylvania.  When she’s not working, Rebecca enjoys hiking, surfing, yoga, and gardening; or getting creative with playing guitar, painting surreal landscapes with acrylic, cooking and attempting to master the art of sarcastic humor.  She is also mom to 2 beautiful pre-schoolers, aged 2 and 4.

Growing up in farm country in southern Michigan, Lee’s passion for food came from a young age. Lee has been gardening his entire life and worked in the fields, greenhouses and farm stands of the local food scene throughout his youth. The family Christmas tree farm taught Lee and his sister the family entrepreneurial spirit as well as help pay for college.

After graduating from Michigan State, Lee headed toward a career in the marketing and advertising industry. After relocating to Traverse City, he reconnected with his love of food and began working at Cherry Capital Foods. What started with the sales team lead to purchasing responsibilities and eventually Lee became the VP of Operations.

The experiences and challenges of operating a food hub and distribution company have taught Lee the value of our foods’ journey from farm to mouth, some of them very simple and many very complex. Taking a small company like CCF to the next tier requires a strong strategic plan, metrics and goals. He is excited to bring his knowledge and perspective of the food industry to the KTC team and clients.

When not working on food systems, Lee can be found in the kitchen, garden or workshop, crafting something with his hands. He is the father of two beautiful children, a die-hard Spartan and a lover of all four seasons.

Kristel Keys Running, M.A. is passionate about sustainable agriculture and food. Her passion for food and farming began on the rolling hills in southwest Wisconsin, where she grew up on a small farm surrounded by fields and trees as far as the eye could see. She thinks farming is the most important job and loves working for the greater good of the land. She has experienced the joy that life on a farm brings and also understands the challenges farmers face. 

Throughout her career, Kristel has worked with organizations across a wide range of industries, including farming and consumer package goods. She developed strategic marketing plans, engaging and innovative content, and successful digital marketing campaigns that saw an increase in customer engagement and lead generation, and ultimately increased sales. In addition to growing up on a farm and coming from a farming family, she worked directly with farmers at Organic Valley. She developed campaigns to recruit new farmers to join the co-op, managed the farmer-facing website and oversaw all content creation from newsletters to email campaigns that went out to farmers. 

Kristel is a creative and strategic thinker with more than 20 years of marketing communications experience. Her ability to cultivate client relationships while running multiple campaigns shines through with satisfied clients and high performing metrics. She is excited to use her expertise to help grow your company through strategic marketing and innovation. Kristel has a MA in Business Communications and a BS in Communications Technology Management. Her goal is simple – to empower farms and organizations to differentiate themselves and drive measurable results through innovative messaging, images, and advertising. In her free time, Kristel enjoys hiking, traveling, spending time with her family, and volunteering.

Zoe Schaeffer is a photographer and experienced marketing specialist with a background in writing, graphic & web design, and social media management. She is a previous editor and social media manager for the food magazine SAVEUR (saveur.com) and has worked as a communications specialist for organizations including Rodale Institute (rodaleinstitute.org) and the Regenerative Organic Alliance (regenorganic.org).

Zoe once took a year to travel cross-country volunteering through the farming organization WWOOF (wwoofusa.org). She worked on a no-till, intensive vegetable farm in Tennessee, a dairy farm in Colorado, a bison ranch in Montana, and other operations. She now farms part-time near where she lives in Bethlehem, PA.

Combining her experience in digital marketing and farming, Zoe is able to uniquely help clients in the food & farm industries grow their businesses with online tools. She specializes in helping farmers build or improve their websites with writing and design, and growing sales through social media and email marketing.

Meagan is passionate about helping farmers and specialty food businesses be set up for success. She grew up in the country in North Louisiana, surrounded by farmers, and is no stranger to the hard work and dedication it takes. She graduated from Louisiana State University with a BS in Communication Studies. After graduating college, she moved to Austin, TX where she was inspired by the local food scene that flourished. She spent a year teaching English abroad in Chiang Mai, where her love for local and sustainable food production deepened and led her back to North Louisiana. Here, she has spent the last four years working for a regenerative farm, helping farmers and families build a strong local food system. She has a good marketing sense and plenty of experience building direct to consumer websites, creating content, tracking progress through analytics, and doing the research necessary to develop a strong marketing plan. Her intention is to help lay the ground work necessary to help farmers succeed and focus on what they love…farming!

Justine Gray is a New Jersey native who takes the name “Garden State” very seriously. She has worked for farms of all kinds: a small scale CSA farm, horse farm, non-profit farm and several focusing exclusively on agri-tourism. Whichever kind of farm it is, Justine is ready to lay in the compost pile for the perfect photo and post to increase engagement and get new customers via social media. For the last 5 years Justine has worked on developing events, newsletters and community outreach programs. She has also worked closely on CSA management, customer acquisition, recipe development and forming a community both online and offline with her CSA members and local food bloggers. She has created marketing campaigns for various farms because she believes that every community should know how lucky they are to have a local farm nearby.

If you can’t find her checking Instagram from the saddle of her own horse you can probably find her tending her crop of specialty garlic or driving a Kubota.

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Mara brings years of experience behind the butcher case at Lowry Hill Meats in Minneapolis, Marrow in Detroit, and Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge to her work as a Meat Marketing Specialist. While she can break down a whole cow or pig, her real passion is meat education and sharing the unique characteristics of each farm and cut. Mara utilizes her customer-facing experience to support meat businesses in sharing their stories and their products. She loves finding innovative ways to describe cuts of meat and can always hone in on the most interesting element of a business to share when creating content such as emails, blog posts and website copy. When not thinking about meat, Mara can be found in Philadelphia going for walks, making cocktails, and looking for her next great meal.

Julia is passionate about nourishing food, soil health, organization, and analytics.  She was raised in rural Western Uganda where her neighbors taught her to value farming and community living.  After attending Duke University for her undergraduate degree in Cultural and Environmental Studies, she worked for the Farm at New Garden Park in Greensboro, NC, eventually becoming its farm manager. There she learned many skills from managing employees and volunteers to double-digging beds and organic pest control.

Julia wanted to enable the sustainable food movement to grow and enable her fellow farmers to succeed financially, so she chose to pursue her MBA at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and is expected to graduate in May of 2023.

In her free time, she loves to bake scones and granola, go on hikes/bike rides in the mountains, plant what she can at her house, and read novels. She is usually accompanied everywhere by her faithful dog, Basil.

Ada Broussard is a farm marketing specialist with a diverse skill set. Ada grew up in South Louisiana, went to college in Austin, Texas, and completed a graduate program in Jerusalem.  Ada’s love and fascination with each region’s distinct foodways lead her to a career in agriculture because you can’t have great food without great farmers.

Ada has spent over 7 years of her career managing the marketing and growth strategies for one of the largest CSA farms in the country where she nurtured a wide range of skills including copywriting, content creation, email marketing, design, illustration, art direction, social media management, and customer-facing communication strategies. Ada loves to think of creative and innovative marketing solutions for small and medium-sized businesses that fit their budget, align with their brand, and generate sales. Her marketing ethos centers on authentic storytelling.

In addition to marketing, Ada has experience farming (like, in the dirt), managing CSA programs, and managing distribution logistics. She co-found Club Home Made, a meal prep service designed to connect Central Texas consumers with local food producers and empower them to cook simple, seasonal food. Ada is based in the Texas “Hill Country” where she lives with her partner, their dogs, about 90 goats, and a small herd of cattle. Ada enjoys cooking, hiking, and crafting in her spare time.

Jenn is a food and lifestyle photographer based in Southern New Hampshire. She has a passion for all things small business and farm to table. She brings a careful attention to detail and a natural aesthetic to her food photography while always keeping a fun, friendly, and professional relationship with clients.

Jenn was born and raised in a small town in New Hampshire, but has lived in Portland, Maine, Western Massachusetts, and San Francisco. In her free time she loves to camp, travel, cook, spend time with friends and family, and of course find the best local spots for food and drink.

Mansi is a software engineer and Shopify web developer. She is passionate about helping businesses move forward by elevating their online presence. She has over 5 years of experience with building websites on various platforms like Shopify, WordPress, Squarespace, etc. Mansi has the ability to build with design in mind, while also customizing client’s sites with her coding background.

Mansi lives in Waterloo, Canada and volunteers in her free time with Canada Learning Code as a mentor and instructor, and with Women in Tech World to help source speakers for monthly industry discussions. She is also an avid reader.

Samantha is the Marketing Manager for her family’s farm business in southern Indiana. She specializes in online and email marketing of meat, eggs, and dairy products. Growing up on her family’s farm instilled a passion for local food, small business, and farm-to-consumer marketing. She loves building relationships between local food businesses and their customers.

Samantha earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from Brescia University in Owensboro, KY and has spent the last four years as a work-from-home mom to her two young daughters. Her focus is to help farms and local businesses create a convenient and enjoyable buying experience for their customers.

Stephanie is a copywriter and content creator based in New Hampshire. She is passionate about producing strategic, engaging content that helps brands connect with and build their audiences. With a background in marketing and SEO writing, she understands how to craft informative and optimized copy.

Stephanie brings over eight years of experience providing copywriting and content creation services to clients in various industries, from lifestyle brands to B2B services. Her specialties include website content writing, blogging, and email marketing. She particularly loves working with small businesses and start-ups.

In her free time, Stephanie loves traveling, discovering the newest craft breweries with her husband, bingeing anything true crime, and spoiling her sassy pup, Sadie.

Jonathan brings a diverse skill set to the table with over 15 years of military and professional experience in marketing, recruiting, strategy, financial control, project management, and client relations. Jonathan earned his MBA in Marketing from the University of New Hampshire in 2007 but placed his career on the back burner, opting instead to serve as an Officer in the US Air Force.

Jonathan utilizes his skills, education, and experience to determine your business’ online marketing needs – even if that means you don’t need anything at all. Jonathan understands that what is best for our business is to ensure that your business succeeds – your needs come first!

When he’s not pitching Obi-Wan Kenobi-like marketing skills, he’s typically wrangling his toddler daughter or singing karaoke at Daniel Street Tavern.

Jack Dempsey, currently living in Pennsylvania has spent the last several years traveling around the United States and learning how to farm organically. He received a certification in Agroecology from The Center for Agroecology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a certification in Organic Farming from the The University of Vermont’s Farmer Training Program. While getting involved in agriculture he realized the immense benefits of using video to capture to story of farms and farmers.

He traded his trowel for some cameras and went to study Media Communications at Full Sail University, Orlando Florida. Since graduating, he has been able to continue pursuing his passion for regenerative agriculture as a videographer for numerous farms and agricultural organizations, including Rodale Institute and Taste Profit Marketing. If you need him he could be anywhere from the editing room perfecting a transition in his latest vlog or harvesting his favorite crop of just about any type of potato.

Eva is an expert at pitching food brands to a wide range of media outlets. She has a track record of media placements in nationally-circulated magazines and newspapers, well-trafficked blogs, websites and highly-rated radio and television programs. She was responsible for media placements of The Mill Fudge Factory on MSN.com and the Boston Globe, among dozens of others.

Boasting strong relationships with print, broadcast and online journalists across the United States and Canada, she has the resources, experience and expertise to obtain maximum press exposure for our clients and their specialty food brands.

Eva prides herself on only taking on projects where she feels a connection with the brand and loves what they do. She is choosey about the clients she takes on and has to sincerely think your product is really innovative, exceptional…or delicious.

As part of her work, Eva contacts journalists, editors, writers, bloggers, and TV/radio hosts and producers and tells them all about your brand. Throughout the whole PR process, she keeps in close contact with you, the client, keeping you posted on progress and sharing monthly media reports itemizing all the press coverage you have received.

Eva lives in New York City and enjoys world travel, music, film, and, of course, specialty food and drink!

Lee has a passion for entrepreneurship and helping grow small businesses. He has a diverse background ranging from commercial photography, social media marketing, web design to his specialty, search engine optimization (SEO). He has a proven track record of taking websites from zero organic search traffic to having a consistent month over month growth.

Growing your specialty food business is a marathon and not a sprint, and we will build you a solid SEO foundation that you can continue to build and grow upon sustainably.

Lee regularly gives talks and presentations to the local business communities, is an instructor for DMC Seacoast and taught Marketing classes at Keene State College. In his free time, Lee loves to travel, go on adventures, explore the world for all of its sights, sounds, and tastes!

Mimi is a graphic designer with 20+ years of experience translating strategies into effective branding. She works with new–often local–businesses to build brands and refreshes existing brands to help them grow. She loves the opportunity to bring the brand off the page–printed or digital–finding new ways to reach an audience while maintaining consistency across everything about the brand experience. Her approach is creative and collaborative, focused on problem-solving.

In addition to design and layout, Mimi is accomplished in photo direction. Projects include logo designs, infographics, digital ads, catalogs, menus, packaging, and greeting card design.

Mimi has a degree in Art History from Franklin and Marshall College in addition to a design degree. While she spends most of her creative time behind her computer, she has 17,976 photos on her iPhone and an enviable collection of colored pencils.

A native of North Carolina Helen grew up surrounded by the sites and smells of the eastern region’s tobacco belt and hog farms. She transplanted to Pennsylvania for her graduate studies at Pennsylvania State University where she earned an MS in Bio Behavioral Health, an interdisciplinary program that heavily emphasizes the holistic analysis of complex issues. Along the way she cultivated her own interests in sustainable farming methods, trying them out on her own homestead and diligently tracking her own progress, profitability and failures.

Helen gradually moved away from academia and into a more practical application of her skills. From being a general laborer on a number of farms to serving as the Educational Programs Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA), to most recently acting as the Operations Manager of a small scale multi-species abattoir, she has had her hands in multiple facets of the agricultural community. She understands wholeheartedly the complex nature of ag-based business and the fears that come along with working in an industry where so many uncontrollable variables factor into success or failure. With a passion for organization and a drive for evidence-based decision making Helen joined the KTC team at the beginning of 2019 as a part-time Staff Consultant and she continues to keep her boots on the ground working on a diversified livestock farm. In her downtime she is still meticulously tracking and analyzing the progress of her own homestead tucked away in the Penns Valley area of Pennsylvania.

Jillian’s expertise is all things Amazon. She has worked with pre-revenue start-ups, established $100M brands and everyone in between. Over the past 6+ years, she has had the opportunity to work directly with brand-owners, manufacturers, private label sellers and resellers. With SEO and market research, she can optimize listings for best practice to drive Amazon’s latest algorithm and increase client revenue. She has proven results with PPC strategy to drive new sales and improve ROI. Her background in finance and analytics helps drive efficiency in the marketplace with inventory forecasting, shipment management and demand planning. Her focus on transparency in training, consulting, and account management, helps brands understand their Amazon presence better and swiftly reach their goals.

Jillian was born in Cape Cod, MA. Currently, she’s residing at a 1700’s New England farm and is probably picking raspberries. In her free time, she teaches adaptive yoga, or she is skiing, biking, hiking with her two dogs, daughter & husband, or traveling to any of the best beaches to camp, read, surf or run.

Hillary Lyons is a copywriter and brand strategist with over a decade of experience in the food and wine industry. She’s also a former sushi chef, an aspiring ethnobotanist, and an avid baker.

Hillary recognized her love of cooking early in life, but it wasn’t until college that she discovered her passion for food justice. A sociology course catalyzed in her a deep commitment to sustainability and to empowering communities through food sovereignty.

Upon graduating from Vassar College, Hillary worked in restaurants for a few years before her itchy foot led her on new adventures. In 2014, she enrolled at the University of Gastronomic Sciences for a Master in Human Ecology & Sustainability. The one-year program led her throughout Europe to visit farms, factories, vineyards, and villages with rich gastronomic heritage.

Inspired by this experience, Hillary began writing to preserve the stories of these artisanal producers. A job with Slow Food International gave her the opportunity to share these stories with the world as the grassroots nonprofit prepared for its exhibit at Milan’s 2015 World EXPO.

With the EXPO complete and her studies over, Hillary returned to her hometown of San Francisco. There she combined her extensive food & wine knowledge with her writing skills to carve out a marketing career in the competitive food tech space. But by 2018, she realized the startup grind was not for her. She missed how connected she felt to her food system when working with small-scale producers. So she set out to blaze her own trail as an independent marketing consultant for food & wine businesses.

Today, Hillary loves working with local producers as well as international brands to tell compelling stories that build engaged audiences around the shared values of sustainability, equity, and inclusion. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her in her effusively untamed garden or tromping through the redwoods in search of wild mushrooms.

Girish has very broad based experience in IT and eCommerce and held titles such as Hardware Engineer, Game Developer, Webmaster and Sr. Lead Software Engineer. He worked for the Flash Player development team at Macromedia and Adobe over several releases and was responsible for user experience and security features.

As an eCommerce consultant, Girish has worked with hundreds of eCommerce stores across various platforms such as Magento, Bigcommerce, Volusion, and Prestashop, and now primarily focuses on the Shopify Platform as a Developer and Shopify Expert. His specializations include developing complete bespoke themes from scratch, custom features, app development, and speed and performance optimization.

Girish was born and brought up in coastal town in India, known for its amazing range of very spicy but tasty local cuisines mostly made of fish and chicken. When time permits, he loves to travel and experience diverse cultures and cuisines in India and around the world.

From her great grandfather’s Boston-based wholesale tomato business to her cousin’s organic fruit farm in New Hampshire, food and an entrepreneurial spirit have run deep in Joanna’s family. With a passion for supporting small businesses and a background in marketing, Joanna supports entrepreneurs with the tools they need to grow their online presence using social media.

Joanna has worked on marketing teams of all sizes including Fortune 500 and start-up companies. From working on consumer-facing retail and food brands to wholesale food manufacturers, Joanna’s versatile experience provides a wide range of marketing skills that plays a significant role in creating social media strategies for clients. Joanna takes a wholesome approach by understanding the business, its goals and its audience to craft a strategy and management plan that’s sustainable and always improving by centralizing analytics.

Knowing that strong marketing can make any brand successful, Joanna makes it her mission to provide those resources to smaller, socially-driven businesses.

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Sean is a multi-channel graphic designer and art director living in Boston. After years of working within various agencies, Sean has gathered a range of creative skills to help clients bring their brand to life. From initial concept to final deliverable and beyond, the continued engagement and communication in each step ensures success for both the client and the creative process.

Sean’s creative foundation lays within graphic design, social media content creation and creative consulting. The visuals of any brand, no matter how big or small, are hugely important and help make a strong connection with the audience. A strong passion for working with small business owners of all kinds, Sean enjoys connecting with new people and building strong relationships to really get to know all aspects of their business.