Eric Fuchs-Stengel

Eric is a Sustainable Agriculture Specialist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT.org), where his expertise focuses on apiculture (beekeeping), community farming, and intensive market gardening. Eric is the Founder of MEVO.org, a prominent youth-led environmental non-profit organization in New Jersey. While at MEVO he spearheaded and developed the Fresh Roots Farm and Lovewell Farm. These community farms annually engage over 3,000 student volunteers and provide healthy food to the local community. He also partnered with the Ramapough Lunaape Nation to create the Stag Hill Cleanup Program which over the last 15 years has organized over 150 trash clean-ups, engaged more than 4,000 volunteers, and removed 350 tons of illegally dumped waste from the community’s forest lands. He is a Master Beekeeper accredited through Cornell University and has been beekeeping for over a decade. He holds a degree in Ecological Sustainability & Social Change from New York University. Eric has received significant honors for his contributions to public and environmental service such as receiving the 2014 National Jefferson Award for Public Service Benefiting Local Communities.