Farm to Table Communications -- Helping You Tell Your Farm-based Enterprise Stories

Renee Brooks Catacalos, Principal

With more than 20 years of public relations and protocol experience, more than five years of immersion in the local food and local sourcing movement in the Mid-Atlantic region, and a passion for food, Renee Brooks Catacalos is uniquely positioned to provide the knowledge, skills and contacts you need to bring your agriculture, specialty food or food systems stories to the audiences you need to reach.

Drawing on her own expertise and that of colleagues skilled in complementary disciplines, Catacalos provides a range of consulting and communications services including:

• communications audits and strategic communications planning;
• grant research and proposal writing;
• community building through print and online newsletters, web site content, and social media;
• media relations and event publicity; and
• partnership and event planning.

Catacalos works with farms, farmers markets, organizations, producers, retailers, restaurants and others in the sustainable and local food supply chain. She is formerly publisher of Edible Chesapeake magazine, and serves on the boards of FRESHFARM Markets in Washington, DC and the Riverdale Park Farmers Market in Riverdale, MD. She is a member of Slow Food USA and of the culinary organization Les Dames d'Escoffier, and has been a subscriber to From the Ground Up community supported agriculture (CSA) program at Clagett Farm in Upper Marlboro, MD for several years. Her current clients include Future Harvest - A Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA), Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (MD H2E), and ECO City Farms.

For businesses or nonprofits interested in learning more about sustainable agriculture, eating local, and regional food systems, Catacalos and her colleagues deliver presentations, tasting demonstrations and workshops that illustrate the joys and benefits of local and sustainable eating.

Catacalos has co-published her personal observations and opinions on happenings on the Mid-Atlantic local food scene through the monthly e-newsletter Local Mix, archived at www.realpeopleeatlocal.com. You can reach Renee directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Last updated January 1, 2011