Our Team

Sally Fisher
Sally has a Masters Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and a Graduate Certificate in Public Health Research and Evaluation and has worked as a Community Dietician for over 10 years. Sally was raised on a wool and beef farm in Western Victoria and is deeply concerned about the environmental, social and economic sustainability of our current food system. Besides being deeply involved in the establishment and running of Food Connect Adelaide, Sally also teaches “Ecological Issues in Food and Health” at Flinders University, South Australia. Sally is a co-director of Food Connect Adelaide and is the inspiration behind its development here in Adelaide.

Simon Martin
Simon is a qualified horticulturist with a Diploma in Biodynamics with a life passion for vegetable production, particularly in organic methods. Simon worked as a market gardener on the outskirts of Sydney, then in South Australia, with production peaking at about 10 acres per year. In the mid 1990′s Simon took the opportunity to widen his field of experience, and to give his bad back a break (and to avoid spending English winter outdoors) and began working in database management in the UK. Now back in Australia , Simon is dedicating his time to establishing and running Food Connect Adelaide. Simon is a co-director of Food Connect Adelaide.

Toby Symes
Toby heads up the Conversation Team at Food Connect Adelaide.  If you call us, you’ll most likely chat to Toby!

Kelly Jones
Kelly is a public health academic at Adelaide University with a Masters degree in Public Health and an almost PhD in Dentistry. She is a full time loca-foodie and mum of 3 with a passion for food politics,  food security,  sustainable food issues and community development and is finding less and less time for her own vege patch!  Kelly is responsible for  running Food Connect Adelaide’s website and social media pages and is enjoying being a  City Cousin. Kelly is a co-director of Food Connect Adelaide. Contact Kelly on marketing@foodconnectadelaide.com.au

Kelly Mckinley

Kelly McKinley is originally from California, where she earned a degree in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz.  She went on to work on a number of family-owned organic and biodynamic vegetable and grain farms, all with CSAs of their own, before travelling and eventually settling in South Australia. She loves growing, preparing, eating, talking about and writing about food, and is delighted to be a part of an organisation with a focus not just on eating well, but food security, ethics, community and environmental issues.  She helps track down local, organic goodies as Food Connect’s assistant produce coordinator, as well as packing boxes and editing the Farm Letter. Contact Kelly on  scribe@foodconnectadelaide.com.au

Paul Grillo

Paul is our delivery dude

Many thanks go to Richard Pagliaro and Sam Scammel who both contributed their extensive skills, time and committment to the early development and start up of Food Connect Adelaide.