Danby Food and Drink is being led by Kartik Sribarra (“carthick”), who has more than a decade of retail grocery experience, from serving as a manager on duty at GreenStar Food Co-op in Ithaca and more recently at Main Street Market in Trumansburg, NY. Through these 10+ years in the retail and local food movements, Kartik has developed strong connections with many farmers, distributors, growers, producers and customers.
Both through this work and elsewhere, he loves connecting with others, cultivating easeful connection and joy. With training in nonviolent communication and a natural proclivity to create and cultivate community, he finds customer service a deeply satisfying and enriching process of creating and strengthening connections. An extrovert and a customer service professional to his core, working and supporting others in environments that help create community is a pure joy.
Check out the following articles about this project!
- Most recently, Tompkins Weekly ran an article (Sept 2024) with an update on where we’ve
- Previously, Tompkins Weekly ran this article in February, 2024
- Just a week or two prior to that, our cute little town ran this article in the Danby Newsletter (p3) (also February 2024)
- And back in July 2023, this Tompkins Weekly article covered several exciting new projects in Danby, all working to help uplift our beautiful small town.
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