Logistics got in the way of Jonny Hunter hearing professor David Weimer explain to first-year students how to write a policy memo as part of the Professional Development Workshop.
La Follette School student Jonny Hunter cleans up after a meal served at Bike the Barns. He devised the one-day bike ride's route, oversaw logistics and coordinated all the local gourmet food served on the ride. He is focusing his studies on agriculture policy.
The first-year master of public affairs student was fine-tuning plans for guiding more than 500 bicycle riders on the second Bike the Barns. The one-day bike tour on September 27 was a fund-raiser for Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition's Partner Shares Program that helps low-income families purchase fresh vegetables through community-support agriculture programs.
Hunter is focusing his studies on agriculture policy. He has volunteered with MACSAC, Midwest Social Forum, Buy Fresh Buy Local and FH Students for Sustainable Agriculture.
Bike the Barns 2008 raised $20,000 for Partner Shares Program, which, since 1997, has made fresh local food available through financial assistance to more than 2,300 underserved and low-income households in Dane County.
Hunter is co-founder of the Underground Food Collective, a catering company that emphasizes the use of sustainable agriculture and local foods. For Bike the Barns 2008, he was ride director, having helped to develop the idea for the first Bike the Barns in 2007 and serving as its co-director. “My responsibilities were really broad this year,” Hunter says. “I came up with the route, oversaw all the logistics and coordinated the food.
“All the meals and snacks served during the ride featured gourmet local food,” he says. “We sold out a couple of weeks prior to the event — we may have to double our capacity next year."
— posted October 8, 2008