What We Do
We build vegetable and fruit gardens in virtually any space. We bring together a comprehensive set of resources to make your program successful with our books, workshops, gardening beds, and unique partnerships and outreach. We create synergies that magnify the impact of your initiative and create goodwill far beyond your initial objectives, whether it is corporate wellness, food access, health and nutrition initiatives, education spaces for math and science.
Our expertise is creating and executing customized garden-oriented programs to meet your unique needs. Whether you are looking to promote wellness, improve nutrition, provide a food source, encourage self-sufficiency, advance environmental awareness, or are simply looking for a constructive, educational or team-building activity, Yellow Tractor can help meet your objectives.
Our Supporters/Alliances
Government agencies, corporations, hospitals, health care leaders, state agencies, food dispersal agencies, schools, higher education, non-profits, senior centers, afterschool programs.
HWCF
KaBOOM
Our Products
Books, Garden Beds, Workshops, Webinars, and Consulting.
Our Profiles
Amy Fox
Founder
Yellow Tractor Program
703.638.3200
amybrownfox@yellowtractorprogram.com
Amy grew up with a love of the outdoors and has spent many years training and riding horses. She has been an award-winning leader in the educational publishing arena. Over the last 25 years she's held positions ranging from writer and editor, to publisher and creative director with leading publishing groups such as Encyclopedia Britannica, Wiley, and Princeton Press. Amy co-founded and built the educational book press, Dancing Rhinoceros Press, touted by TIME Magazine for Kids, First Lady of California, Maria Shriver, and the Illinois House of Representatives. She holds a B.A. in English/Creative Writing, and a minor in Economics, from Michigan State University. Additionally, she has served on various boards and committees within foundations and schools highlighting the separate issues of: disability awareness, children's emotional and physical health, parenting topics, and handicapped riding programs. Amy considers herself a lifelong learner and embraces today's dialogue to provide solutions to the issues of health, nutrition, and food access in America. Amy is completing her Master Gardener work in Virginia. She lives on 30 acres in Loudoun County, Virginia with her husband and three sons.
Wendy H. Irwin
Director of Strategy and Development
Yellow Tractor Program
847.791.7941
wendy@yellowtractorprogram.com
Wendy has been a successful synergist in the profit and non-profit world for over 20 years. As a consultant in launch and roll-out strategies, she specializes in creating win-win partnerships and programs. She designs and oversees long term, effective messaging for all parties. Utilizing a community-centric approach, she has created development relationships with, and for: North Shore University HealthSystem, The American Cancer Society, The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, Parkways Foundation (philanthropic arm of the Chicago Park District) and United Way. She is an advisor for MoneyThink, a University of Chicago student initiative delivering financial literacy and promoting entrepreneurship to Chicago's youth. The program has expanded to university campuses across the nation. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and English from the University of Texas and Post Graduate Certification in Research, with a concentration in case law. She consults with, and serves on, the Board of Directors for educational foundations, health, arts, and charitable organizations. She leads the development of a parent education model aligning globally recognized researchers in education and physical and mental health and well being. She has helped position Yellow Tractor as a national thought leader regarding wellness, education, and rethinking food in America. Wendy resides in Chicago with her husband and four children.
Caroline Hoff
I am a student at University of Illinois as an Agriculture Leadership Education major. I grew up gardening on my grandparent's farm, spending a lot of time outdoors. The experiences I have had on my farm are what lead to my interest in food production and gardening.
Kathleen Luczak
Director of Sales and Marketing
703.201.8362
kathleen@yellowtractorprogram.com
Kathleen O'Flaherty Luczak has over 20 years of experience in direct and channel sales marketing, project management, and business development. Kathleen worked for over 13 years at the Oracle Corporation where she sold software and services to local, state, and the federal government, as well as higher education and healthcare industries. She graduated with a B.A. in communications, and public relations from Xavier University. Kathleen enjoys gardening with her husband and two children. She lives on 7 acres of land in Northern, Virginia.
Eric Hess
Project Management
847.337.6301
eric@yellowtractorprogram.com
Eric grew up having a passion for the outdoors and environmental conservation. He has spent many years of family time skiing, hiking, white water rafting, and camping in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and explored several other national parks in the western United States. He took his passion for the environment with him to Denison University, where he graduated in May 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies and a minor in History. As part of his studies, Eric helped to organize a fundraising event for the American Farmland Trust and participated in a conference with the Licking County Land Trust to introduce a new nature center for the Spring Valley Nature Reserve in Granville, Ohio. Eric has traveled all over the world including Australia, Europe, and most recently spending six months studying abroad at the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, South Africa, located just outside of Cape Town. Eric was able to travel extensively around southern Africa, developing a particular fondness for the national parks in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Eric joined the Yellow Tractor in August 2011 as an intern in the Chicago office and currently serves in project management.
Jessica Immelman
Marketing Intern
jessica@yellowtractorprogram.com
Jessica is a student at Loyola University Chicago, currently working on her BA degree in Advertising and Public Relations and a minor in Environmental Action and Leadership. She is an avid believer in establishing a balance between the environment and mankind, and feels that the communications, education and actions taken by Yellow Tractor to establish nutrition gardens everywhere can achieve that. Jessica believes in their mission and is proud to be able to develop her skills in communication and knowledge of environmental and social issues with this social enterprise. Born and raised in South Africa, the environment has been an integral part of her upbringing. From a young age she found an affinity with the outdoors and developed a deep appreciation for the role it plays in our survival. For this reason she was involved in Environmental organizations throughout her schooling and into her university career. Currently working to ban bottled water on her campus, she feels that actions speak far louder than words.
Robin
robin@yellowtractorprogram.com
Robin is a recent graduate of Seattle University where she studied English Literature. She is from Menlo Park, California but recently moved to Chicago to pursue a writing career. As an avid supporter of the green movement, Robin has spent the past year focusing on environmental issues in her writing. She continues to support healthy, sustainable living through her connection to Yellow Tractor.
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