Food, family, and community are motivating forces for Trisha Pérez Kennealy, the founder and owner of The Inn at Hastings Park in Lexington, Massachusetts, and chair of the Friedman School’s Board of Advisors.
A commitment to sustainable small-scale agriculture has long been a guiding principle of the inn’s restaurant, which features fresh vegetables, fruits, and meats from nearby farms on its menu.
Those same values also inspired a recent gift Pérez Kennealy made with her husband, Mike, to create the Trisha Pérez Kennealy and Mike Kennealy Directorship at the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project. A program of the Friedman School, New Entry helps small-scale beginning farmers establish and grow their businesses.