Our Team

Niki is the founder of Central Oregon Locavore. She grew up eating home grown fresh seasonal produce and enjoying fresh raw milk from the local co-op.

You may recognize Kim from Navidi’s Olive Oil store, which she managed for 8 years. Kim and her family are long time Bend residents, and Kim has a strong management and culinary background.

Her hubs and brother are both head chefs, and she has worked in over 30 restaurants. She became a Chef de Cuisine at Mamma Mia and Mothers in Portland and accompanied Chef Lisa Schroeder to the James Beard House in New York.

Originally from California, Jamie loves living in central Oregon with her two goldendoodles, Maverick and Bodhi. She loves hiking, creating, and all things herbal. She is passionate about good food and local farmers and land. She strives to live a simple, intentional life and to get back to ancestral ways of living. She is so excited to be a part of team Locavore.

Leighana Lynn’s focus is to help further the mission of Locavore and empower our community to get involved.

While she loves to get her hands dirty helping out at local farms, she keeps our marketplace neat and clean! Combining her deep love for nature and ecology with her belief in just and sustainable food systems, Lexie’s dream is to help foster thrive-able places for humans, wildlife, plants, and fungi alike. She looks forward to working hard alongside our community for our shared health and well-being.

Jay grew up in San Diego where he spent time playing soccer and going to the beach. He helped a professor teach at-risk youths about tide pool biodiversity in an attempt to broaden their world view.

While Jay came from day trading previously, his previous job was working at a local gym to help improve mental and physical health. Jay was looking for a new career path that had strong communal ties that had a charitable message and mission.