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Don't let the good food movement become only feel good | Kendra Kimbirauskas | TEDxManhattan

2,018 views · Published 20 March 2015 · 12:19 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Kendra Kimbirauskas grew up on a pasture-based dairy farm in the Midwest. Kendra’s community organizing work took her to rural communities in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota before she moved to Oregon in 2003. Kendra joined the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP), and in 2012, she became Chief Executive Officer of SRAP. Kendra and her husband currently farm 70 acres in Scio, Oregon where they breed and raise heritage breeds of pigs, chickens, and turkeys.

Kendra Kimbirauskas earned her degrees from Michigan State University, and became a community organizer for the Sierra Club, helping communities threatened by factory farms. In 2005, Kendra founded the group, Friends of Family Farmers, an Oregon-based non-profit that organized to oppose Threemile Canyon Farms, a 55,000-head dairy factory outside of Boardman, Oregon. In 2006, she began consulting work for the Grace Factory Farming Project and started a small farm in Colton, Oregon. Kendra is an avid equestrian, and in her spare time, she’s usually riding her horse. 

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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