Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist Eric Bendfeldt has devoted his career to building resilient community food systems.
From helping subsistence farmers in Africa to promoting soil health in the Shenandoah Valley, he’s contributed in many ways, always driven by his Mennonite faith.
Eric Bendfeldt visits with Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III, founder of the Black Church Food Security Network, at Pleasant Hope Baptist Church’s Soil to Sanctuary service in Baltimore, Md.
Eric Bendfeldt (left) and Tom Hammett, Ph.D., Virginia Tech professor of sustainable biomaterials, talk with faculty and students of the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania about soil health during Virginia Tech’s East Africa Summer Institute for Educators in June 2023.
(From left) Micheal S. Gutter, Ph.D., director of Virginia Cooperative Extension; Nicole Masters, founder of Integrity Soils, Inc., and author of For The Love of Soil; Clarenda “Farmer Cee” Stanley, owner and CEO of Green Heffa Farms; and Eric Bendfeldt at the 2024 Virginia Farm to Table Conference in Weyers Cave, Virginia.
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