William Snyder followed his girlfriend to Richmond in 2008. (She’s working on a PhD in clinical psychology.) Before landing in an old house in eastern Church Hill, he enjoyed the good life in Barcelona, sipping wine from a balcony overlooking the Mediterranean where he worked as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. He still writes for the Journal, mostly about culture. That includes a column entitled “The Specialist,” which covers the business of food and culinary anthropology. His journalism career began nine years ago as an environmental and conservation reporter with Time Inc. That led to a senior editor position at Outdoor Life magazine. Since then he has written for Popular Science, Wired and Field and Stream, among others. His resume also includes a stint in the mayor’s office in Washington, D.C. and work as a wooden boat builder. He believes farms and cities should co-exist within the same boundaries. Translation: he’s working to develop urban agriculture inside Richmond city limits. His favorite thing to grow is carrots.
Mark Wood – Board Vice-Chair
Mark Wood teaches in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is jointly appointed in Religious Studies and African American Studies. He writes and teaches courses on religion, globalization, social justice and ecology, and has been actively involved in the development of community-engaged education. He is a co-founder of the Faith and Life Science Community Forum of Central Virginia, has led students on study abroad programs to Havana, Cuba and Perugia, Italy. He is presently working on a book on global spirituality, developing partnership programs with the University of Messina in Sicily, and a graduate program in Social Studies at VCU. A vegetarian for more than 25 years, an avid mountain bike rider, scrabble fan, and James River enthusiast, Mark is committed to community gardens as a way to build an ecologically sustainable, socially just, and beautiful world community.
Paz Ochs – Secretary
Paz Ochs was born in the early 70’s in San Francisco, CA, a Leo (on the cusp or Virgo). She was raised in Church Hill and still calls it home. She is trained in classical violin and graduated 1996 from Antioch College (Spanish and French). She is currently working for the City of Richmond, Hispanic Liaison Office, and is passionate about building stronger communities and learning more about gardening.
Mary Morgan – Treasurer
Mary Morgan has a degree in political science and has always been fascinated by current events. She brings her expertise of 14 years of accounting at Devon to Tricycle Gardens. She works magic with spreadsheets! In her spare time she can be found wrangling her two Australian cattle dogs, working in the garden or hanging out in her and her husbands mountain cabin.
Andrea Almond
Andrea Almond is a licensed landscape architect with designforum, a relatively new Urban Design, Town Planning and Landscape Architecture studio located in Jackson Ward. She grew up in the small town of Appomattox, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Tech in 2000 and spent the next seven years working at a private sector design firm in coastal South Carolina.
Community involvement has always been important to Andrea and she has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry, Hilton Head Design Review Board, Hilton Head Public Art Committee, the Design Arts Partnership of South Carolina, and, most extensively, the ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects). At Virginia Tech she served as ASLA Chapter President, National Student Trustee, and organized a successful multi-disciplinary service trip to Belize. While in South Carolina she served in various positions in the South Carolina ASLA Chapter, from treasurer to President. Currently, she is Vice President of Membership and the Awards Committee Chair for the Virginia ASLA Chapter.
Andrea believes in participating in organizations that promote artful design, environmental sustainability and social justice and she thinks Tricycle Gardens does all three. She has always been very interested in community gardens and their potential to bring people to together, foster urban renewal, and create beautiful spaces. In her free time she loves reading, sketching, writing, Virginia Tech football, entertaining, and spending time outdoors with her two favorite people: her nephew Toby and her German Shepherd Baron.
Larry Bartenstein
Larry has lived in Richmond for 30 years and has followed a career path from sales and marketing to teaching to not-for-profit work (public/community relations, fundraising, events management and volunteer coordination). His passion for gardening started early when he helped his parents with their vegetable garden, a passion which has deepened over the years. In addition to his own gardens, he has helped others plant gardens and has worked both as a volunteer and as a part-time employee of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. As a volunteer at Humphrey Calder and at the Greenhouse last spring, he became hooked on Tricycle Gardens. He is putting his skills to work helping plant seeds to further Tricycle’s mission.
Anne Durkin
Anne Durkin is an architect and founding partner of BAM Architects. Anne contributes her entrepreneurial spirit, organizational skills, and business owner experience and perspective to Tricycle Gardens.
Stacy Moulds
Stacy Moulds has been a Tricycle Board Member since its formation and a Garden Member since the fall of 2003, when the Church Hill garden was established. Stacy is the manager for the newly established Farmer’s Market – Byrd House Market of Oregon Hill. prior to this time, she led the Virginia office of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, one of Tricycle’s original partners, for 6 years, briefly managed the 17 th Street Farmer’s Market in 2006, and currently works as a part of Obsidian Engineering. An avid urban gardener and local food supporter, Stacey envisions a network of Community Gardens and their gardeners, urban backyard gardeners, dedicated volunteers and Farmers Markets as the answer to a more liveable, beautiful and sustainable Richmond!
Board
William Snyder-Board Chair
William Snyder followed his girlfriend to Richmond in 2008. (She’s working on a PhD in clinical psychology.) Before landing in an old house in eastern Church Hill, he enjoyed the good life in Barcelona, sipping wine from a balcony overlooking the Mediterranean where he worked as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. He still writes for the Journal, mostly about culture. That includes a column entitled “The Specialist,” which covers the business of food and culinary anthropology. His journalism career began nine years ago as an environmental and conservation reporter with Time Inc. That led to a senior editor position at Outdoor Life magazine. Since then he has written for Popular Science, Wired and Field and Stream, among others. His resume also includes a stint in the mayor’s office in Washington, D.C. and work as a wooden boat builder. He believes farms and cities should co-exist within the same boundaries. Translation: he’s working to develop urban agriculture inside Richmond city limits. His favorite thing to grow is carrots.
Mark Wood – Board Vice-Chair
Mark Wood teaches in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is jointly appointed in Religious Studies and African American Studies. He writes and teaches courses on religion, globalization, social justice and ecology, and has been actively involved in the development of community-engaged education. He is a co-founder of the Faith and Life Science Community Forum of Central Virginia, has led students on study abroad programs to Havana, Cuba and Perugia, Italy. He is presently working on a book on global spirituality, developing partnership programs with the University of Messina in Sicily, and a graduate program in Social Studies at VCU. A vegetarian for more than 25 years, an avid mountain bike rider, scrabble fan, and James River enthusiast, Mark is committed to community gardens as a way to build an ecologically sustainable, socially just, and beautiful world community.
Paz Ochs – Secretary
Paz Ochs was born in the early 70’s in San Francisco, CA, a Leo (on the cusp or Virgo). She was raised in Church Hill and still calls it home. She is trained in classical violin and graduated 1996 from Antioch College (Spanish and French). She is currently working for the City of Richmond, Hispanic Liaison Office, and is passionate about building stronger communities and learning more about gardening.
Mary Morgan – Treasurer
Mary Morgan has a degree in political science and has always been fascinated by current events. She brings her expertise of 14 years of accounting at Devon to Tricycle Gardens. She works magic with spreadsheets! In her spare time she can be found wrangling her two Australian cattle dogs, working in the garden or hanging out in her and her husbands mountain cabin.
Andrea Almond
Andrea Almond is a licensed landscape architect with designforum, a relatively new Urban Design, Town Planning and Landscape Architecture studio located in Jackson Ward. She grew up in the small town of Appomattox, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Tech in 2000 and spent the next seven years working at a private sector design firm in coastal South Carolina.
Community involvement has always been important to Andrea and she has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry, Hilton Head Design Review Board, Hilton Head Public Art Committee, the Design Arts Partnership of South Carolina, and, most extensively, the ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects). At Virginia Tech she served as ASLA Chapter President, National Student Trustee, and organized a successful multi-disciplinary service trip to Belize. While in South Carolina she served in various positions in the South Carolina ASLA Chapter, from treasurer to President. Currently, she is Vice President of Membership and the Awards Committee Chair for the Virginia ASLA Chapter.
Andrea believes in participating in organizations that promote artful design, environmental sustainability and social justice and she thinks Tricycle Gardens does all three. She has always been very interested in community gardens and their potential to bring people to together, foster urban renewal, and create beautiful spaces. In her free time she loves reading, sketching, writing, Virginia Tech football, entertaining, and spending time outdoors with her two favorite people: her nephew Toby and her German Shepherd Baron.
Larry Bartenstein
Larry has lived in Richmond for 30 years and has followed a career path from sales and marketing to teaching to not-for-profit work (public/community relations, fundraising, events management and volunteer coordination). His passion for gardening started early when he helped his parents with their vegetable garden, a passion which has deepened over the years. In addition to his own gardens, he has helped others plant gardens and has worked both as a volunteer and as a part-time employee of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. As a volunteer at Humphrey Calder and at the Greenhouse last spring, he became hooked on Tricycle Gardens. He is putting his skills to work helping plant seeds to further Tricycle’s mission.
Anne Durkin
Anne Durkin is an architect and founding partner of BAM Architects. Anne contributes her entrepreneurial spirit, organizational skills, and business owner experience and perspective to Tricycle Gardens.
Stacy Moulds
Stacy Moulds has been a Tricycle Board Member since its formation and a Garden Member since the fall of 2003, when the Church Hill garden was established. Stacy is the manager for the newly established Farmer’s Market – Byrd House Market of Oregon Hill. prior to this time, she led the Virginia office of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, one of Tricycle’s original partners, for 6 years, briefly managed the 17 th Street Farmer’s Market in 2006, and currently works as a part of Obsidian Engineering. An avid urban gardener and local food supporter, Stacey envisions a network of Community Gardens and their gardeners, urban backyard gardeners, dedicated volunteers and Farmers Markets as the answer to a more liveable, beautiful and sustainable Richmond!