Over the course of 2020, KK&P worked with Rhode Island’s first food business incubator, Hope & Main, to develop a strategic plan for their next five years of operation. Hope & Main has helped aspiring food entrepreneurs launch and scale their businesses by providing shared-use kitchens, technical and business training, and a community of peers and...

Last year, KK&P worked with Brooklyn Grange to recruit a new CEO to take the helm from Founding CEO Ben Flanner. Sam Murray was selected for the position, coming from several decades of experience leading CPG and food businesses. KK&P’s founder Karen Karp checked in with Sam to ask about the past year leading this icon of urban agriculture....

Karen Karp & Partners—founded in 1990 as a consultancy working at the intersection of food, agriculture, and health—added recruiting and human resources services as a practice area in 2006. Led by Dick Batten, our Good People division emerged from the recognition that the organizations, programs, and businesses KK&P worked with needed more than just robust research, planning,...

We’ve been disappointed by the USDA’s recent $1 billion cuts to local food programs. These cuts run counter to the USDA’s mission, and will hurt farms, farmers, and eaters across the country. We penned this letter to USDA Secretary Rollins to express how critical these programs are to the strength, health, and resilience of our...

KK&P is building up our network of freelance Associate Consultants to support a broad range of projects over the course of 2025 and beyond. Associate Consultants work on a project-by-project basis, providing research and consulting support to Senior Analysts and Partners. Associate Consultants may be in the early stages of their careers or decades in;...

We have some exciting news to share about the future of KK&P.

An innovative collaboration between two longtime KK&P clients—the Rhode Island Nursery & Landscape Association (RINLA) and the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC)—allowed for the launch of a new interdisciplinary Associate degree in ‘Environment, Sustainability, and Management’ at the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI).

This historic event was held on September 28, 2022, more than 50 years after the first.

We welcome our readers to review the RFEI and forward it to organizations who may be interested in partnering with WSCAH to develop or grow their neighborhood-based healthy food distribution initiatives.

This summer, KK&P welcomed three new associate consultants to the company.

KK&P is thrilled to announce the release of our report, Agriculture and Local Food Economies in the Appalachian Region, prepared for the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). The report is the culmination of over a year and a half of research and development by KK&P, looking at current trends, dynamics, and opportunities in local and regional food economies across the Appalachian Region.

Adaptation, distribution, and, above all, partnership, are essential to small dairy survival.