Photo by Myra Klarman

Jeff McCabe grew up in Seattle with raspberry patches, rose gardens, wild mushrooms, rhododendrons and his fathers foot-deep garden beds of heavily composted soil.

With a background in engineering and construction, Jeff seems to always be oriented toward figuring it out and doing it himself rather than relying on some impersonal corporation or other plodding bureaucracy to provide. After losing a long-held garden in the Zion Church - Project Grow site to development, Jeff has launched into a new wave of gardening, hoop-house building, meat curing, chicken raising, bread baking, cheese making, fund raising and general rabble rousing around all issues related to food sourcing and community building.

Jeff sits on the board of the People’s Food Cooperative in Ann Arbor, as well as the steering committees for HomeGrown Festival and the Local Food Summit. He is currently working to further establish the 10% campaign for Washtenaw County and does a bit of farming with his friend Steve Thiry on Tessmer Farm.

Jeff seeks nothing short of the transformation of our region into a world-class food tourism destination, with all the benefits this implies for the denizens of this fertile landscape.