About Sara Coblyn

Sara has worked professionally in agriculture and education for over fifteen years, developing and running agriculture based youth development programs. Sara has extensive experience working with young people of all ages, from infants to teenagers and has experience working with people with a variety of special needs. She is the author of the published curriculum, French Fries and the Food System, an agriculture curriculum for The Food Project in Boston, MA. She developed and coordinated the Youth Horticulture Project for University of Vermont Extension in Brattleboro, a garden and market program for at-risk youth. While there she received her Masters in Community Development and Applied Economics. Sara has experience with grant writing, program management and development, farmers’ market management, youth development and education and farm to school programs. For six years, she co-owned and managed a certified organic vegetable farm. For the past three years she has developed and run Sweet Roots Gardens.

Sara also offers private adult yoga sessions and family yoga programs to parents and kids of all ages. She is trained in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program, in the Mindful Schools program and in Kristin Neff’s Mindfulness Based Self Compassion program. Sara is currently using those skills to teach mindfulness to elementary age kids in schools and on zoom. Sara is a skilled educator, nurturing teacher and passionate gardener with over 20 years of gardening experience. She enjoys working with people and sharing the experience of healing and joy she has found through her passions of yoga and gardening.