Our Team

Now Hiring: Business Manager

35 hours per week, $28/hour. Starts: October, 2026. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

We will accept applications until August 31st or until the position is filled. See full description here!

Staff

Maebh Aguilar

Maebh is a Truelove Seeds farmer and manager of our office & seed collection. At our farm, they focus on stewarding seeds from the Andean and Irish diasporas. They are an artist, herbalist, writer, and aspiring archivist. They are Ecuadorian and Irish, from an immigrant family. They were born, raised & live in Philadelphia. They are an herbal educator with the Building Your Home Apothecary course at Bartram's Garden. Instagram: @cryptogam_.

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Maebh apprenticed in 2019 and joined staff in 2020.

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Christopher Bolden-Newsome

Chris Bolden-Newsome, originally from the Mississippi Delta, is the oldest son of farmers and justice workers Demalda Bolden Newsome and Rufus Newsome Sr., and a fourth generation free farmer since emancipation in 1865. In 2010, Chris joined Ty Holmberg in creating the Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden where Chris co-directs a three-acre crop field, orchard, and 60-bed community garden. Sankofa Farm is a spiritually rooted, African Diaspora urban-centered farm and youth development program. Following Natural Agriculture practices, Chris focuses on cultivating healthy soil for life-giving crops while learning and teaching Pan-African practices in farming and foodways. In 2012, Chris married seed farmer Owen Smith Taylor with whom he co-founded the cultural preservation and rematriation focused seed company Truelove Seeds.

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Emma Buchanan

Over the past ten years, Emma has worked on diversified fruit and vegetable farms in both Pennsylvania and Florida. She started her journey with seedkeeping through work at a seed bank at ECHO in Fort Myers, Florida. She is passionate about the role of seed saving in sustainable food systems and loves to learn about the plants that are important to people.

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Marvin Manalo Jr.

Marvin (any pronouns) is a first-generation Filipino-American honored to restore relationships with mga katutubo on the farm and in the office. Through their work at Truelove Seeds, they perpetuate their passion for accessibility by [re]connecting the global diaspora with the food, herbs, and flowers that make us whole. Marvin’s fervor of discovering siling labuyo and presently reuniting with ampalaya, and kangkong are feelings they hope to facilitate within others.

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Max

while the quest for self-definition is continuous, identities that resonate with Max include black (increasingly inclusive on afro-latin(ness) as they learn to communicate in their mother tongue), stutterer, athlete, thinker, maker, lover, and friend. those identities manifest themselves in many avenues including agriculture, the written word, the spoken word, filmmaking, prototyping, relationship building, and storytelling.

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Miki Palchick

Miki Palchick joined the Truelove farm team in the Spring of 2022. She is honored to be stewarding her ancestral crops of Kabocha, Edamame, Shungiku and Japanese Indigo and managing the cut flower operation. Off the farm Miki still plays in the dirt at her home pottery studio. As a potter she enjoys collaborating with chefs, homecooks, and farmers to make contemporary adaptations of traditional vessels used to process, prepare, store, and serve culturally important food. She is currently developing ash glazes from the crop residue left at the end of seed harvest. Instagram: @claykitchenstudio. Website: www.claykitchenstudio.com.

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Owen Taylor

Owen is a seed nerd who loves growing Southern Italian and Irish heirlooms and supporting the community food sovereignty movement through seed keeping. Instagram: @seedkeeping.

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Photo credit: Sahar Coston-Hardy.

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