Marie Brockhoff

Marie grew up on a small cattle farm in Linwood, Kansas, and is a rising senior at William College in Massachusetts, majoring in biology with a minor in environmental studies. For several years, her family ran a baked goods stand at a farmers’ market, which interested her in local food systems. In college, Marie is a biology lab teaching assistant working in a lab that studies how plants fend off herbivores by making compounds like methyl anthranilate (which is the thing that makes grape Kool-Aid smell like grape!) This is her second summer at The Land Institute.