Project Description

Harrisonburg Farmer’s Market vendor and former board member

Phil Easley, Harrisonburg Farmer’s Market vendor and former board member, spent most of his career as a broadcast journalist. He’s worked for several statewide public television networks as well as managed a couple of radio stations. Over three decades he’s interviewed and reported on hundreds of political, business and community leaders for local, state and national audiences.

He has also worked in what media people call ‘the real world’: on farms, in factories, and as a heavy equipment operator. He retired from the language-learning company Rosetta Stone, where he held the position of Senior Audio Engineer.

He and Mary Jo Swartzendruber own a flower farm near Harrisonburg, Virginia. For the past 20 years they have been vendors at the Harrisonburg Farmers’ Market, which is operated by a member (vendor) association governed by a vendor-elected board of directors