MEET OUR TEAM
Erica Berman
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/ FOUNDER
After 20 years in Paris and Italy, Erica swapped city living for a life steeped in sustainable values, nature, and creating less waste when she moved to Midcoast Maine in 2012 with her French husband, and Veggies to Table co-founder, Alain Ollier. In 2019 the launch of Veggies to Table stemmed from a deep-rooted desire to give back to their community. Previously Erica created and ran the boutique vacation rental company Haven In (luxury rentals in Paris, Provence, and Tuscany) and founded and curated HiP Paris a cultural blog on Paris. In her rare free time, Erica loves to read, cook, learn languages, walk in the woods, snuggle with her cats, and travel off the beaten track. Erica has a passion for flowers, beautiful interiors, industrial furniture, and reclaimed and reused everything. She has a degree in Journalism and Psychology from Syracuse University and originally hails from Lexington, Mass where her family owned Berman’s Wine and Spirits for 115 years—since its inception in 1909 until summer 2024.
Megan Achorn
Donor relationship & event manager
Megan is a fundraising professional with a passion for engaging people in meaningful causes. She earned her Sustainable MBA from Unity Environmental University, focusing on sustainability strategies, DEIAB in nonprofits, environmental economics, and leadership. She has worked in various roles where she has led successful fundraising initiatives, developed strategies to engage diverse donors, and managed remote teams. Throughout her career, she has been all about building relationships, effective strategies, and making a positive impact. She lives with her partner, two daughters, one standard poodle and four cats in Bremen. When not working she loves exploring the trails and woods of midcoast Maine.
Kenyon King
Communication & Operations Manager
Kenyon has spent her career working in nonprofit and educational administration, including at the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, College of the Atlantic, and Hartford Public Library. An alumna of Maine College of Art, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and graduated as a Maine Master Naturalist in 2020. She is an artmaker, bread-baker, and writer, and spends most of her time outdoors hiking or growing tomatoes in her garden. She and her husband live on their East Boothbay homestead with their hound dog Baxter and a small flock of happy chickens.
Ice Lekometros
Farm Consultant
Ice has been farming since 2015 and has managed farms in New York, California, Texas, and New Hampshire. With a degree in agriculture and studio arts she thinks of growing fields as a canvas to be filled with shades of green. She has worked on both large and small farms and feels strongly that growing and donating fresh food is essential for building resilient communities. Ice is a master tinkerer, aspiring woodworker and loves sailing, reading, and splitting firewood. Ice and her wife are currently restoring a log cabin in New York and renovating a farmhouse and barn in Maine.
Emma Groman
Farmer
Emma grew up in Maryland but has spent the last few years in Maine working with all the plants she possibly could. She spent two years at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens learning the practice of Horticultural Therapy– utilizing the healing power of working with plants to assist with participants physical and mental wellbeing. She also works as a farm educator, facilitating programs that teach the public about regenerative agriculture in Maine. She gets great joy from watching people make connections between themselves and plants. Our food system is such a mystery for many, but she believes places like Veggies to Table can help make it more accessible for folks. When not farming or teaching people about farming, she's hanging out in Brunswick with her partner, her dog Desmond and her cat Fridge.
Anna Drzewiecki
Farmer
Anna (they/she/none) is a writer and sea/farmer originally from Peaks Island. She lived on the east and west coast, urban and rural, stateside and abroad before moving back to Maine. She holds an interdisciplinary degree from Sarah Lawrence College and is working towards a master’s in anthropology from the University of Oxford, with a focus on food, consumption, feminist blue humanities, and multispecies anthropology in research with oysters. She believes in collectively reimagining and unsettling our food system—in part through grow-to-donate and other creative, non-commercial ways of easing hunger, practicing radical hospitality, nourishing community, and disrupting industrial relationships to what/how/where/why we eat. She has worked farms, tables, and many in-betweens. She lives with her partner and dog, Sauvage.