Beckett Rucker

Beckett (they/them) has a creative spirit and a passion for food, plants, and our relationship with them.  To more deeply understand the food-health-nutrition relationship, they completed numerous courses including Matthew Kenney’s Elevated Plant-Based Foundations Course and T. Colin Campbell’s Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate Program at eCornell.  Wanting to marry nutrition with herbal knowledge, Beckett then completed Juliet Blanketspoor’s Herbal Medicine Making course with the Chestnut School, as well as the level I apprenticeship with Boston School of Herbal Studies. After volunteering in Codman Community Farm kitchen, they moved to work under Chef Kelcy Scolnick as a Sous chef at Wright-Locke farm creating delicious farm suppers and tea times for the local community.   

Beckett has also received their permaculture design certificate from Sowing Solutions in Shelburne Falls, MA and is the farm manager and permaculturist at Soluna Garden Farms in Winchester.  They are currently working to transition the land from cut flower production to a demonstration food and medicine forest.