Who we are

Village Harvest is a volunteer run organization.  Everyone donates their time, talents and personal resources to strengthen our community. Among the thousands of volunteers that have been involved, here are a few key individuals that keep Village Harvest running and growing.

Craig Diserens

Craig became the leader of Village Harvest in 2011, after ten years managing the business and technology as a co-founder and Secretary/Treasurer.  His professional background is in engineering and business, and when he's not consumed by Village Harvest he is a marketing and product development consultant to high tech and entrepreneurial companies in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Karen Hurst

Karen is a Village Harvest board member and the leader of the Sunday, Mountain View based team.  An avid gardener, taking over lawns everywhere to grow edibles.  Karen and her husband also can and dehydrate and cook from the garden.  Karen teaches microbiology at the local community colleges and also volunteers with a number of other gardening and community organizations.  Even with a busy schedule she keeps a constant smile and enthusiasm.

Susan Osofsy

Susan is the leader of our Palo Alto events with and often for other special events.  She is the former co-director of Green Fork, a project of Conexions which celebrates and connects people to their local sources of food.  In this case food literally in people's own backyards!  Susan's entire backyard is landscaped with edibles which she grows organically.  She is a model of the celebration of abundance and sharing with her community.

Joni T. Ohta Diserens

Joni is the Founder of Village Harvest and it was her original idea and passion that made it possible.  Joni grew up in Hawaii where the spirit of Ohana (family) makes every mango or lychee tree a community resource each family shares and enjoys.  Joni's passion is connecting sources of abundance to points of scarcity.  By looking to what we already have, we could solve local hunger with local food.