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Shannon Algiere was born into an agrarian lifestyle in Connecticut, and grew up working in strawberry fields and peach orchards and showing goats and rabbits at local fairs. She has taught at the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center in Mystic, Connecticut, volunteered as a ranger for the Costa Rican National Park Service and managed a biodynamic greenhouse operation in Rhode Island that specialized in culinary and medicinal herbs.

Shannon and husband Jack helped to develop a 60-member market farm in Connecticut where Shannon fulfilled the role of greenhouse manager; handling indoor propagation of herb, flower and vegetable seeds, and management of greenhouse vegetable production—all set up to model Eliot Coleman’s four-season growing methods. Committed to community and sustainable food production, Shannon has teamed up with her husband in developing the farm at Stone Barns.