Natalie Kurylko Condon

Launched and grew a small, all-natural market farm into an award-winning USDA Organic farm that sold thousands of top-quality pounds of produce per week to 350 CSA members, farmer's market customers, more than 30 area restaurants, and select retail outlets like Whole Foods. Owned and operated a year-round farm store lauded as one of the best local food hubs in the country. Managed day-to-day growing and business operations for a business exceeding $1.5 million in annual sales.

• Hire, schedule and train seasonal fall harvest staff.
• Set up concessions stand to optimize customer appeal and operational efficiency.
• Source and purchase food items, supplies and equipment in alignment with strict budgets
• Analyze and control margins and inventory, working with suppliers to secure cost-effective contracts.

Freelance edit for a wide variety of special-interest magazines and websites, including Colorado Homes, Yoga Journal, Delicious Living, Elevation Outdoors, Outside, Travel Holiday, Fitness, as well as a handful of books.

• Work with writers to create engaging, accurate content.
• Edit and proofread copy to bring it into alignment with established industry standards and publication style guidelines.
• Work with art directors in post-production to create polished material.
• Make edits in InCopy and proofread final galleys before going to press.

• Utilized exceptional writing, editing, fact-checking, and proofreading skills to produce engaging, error-free content.
• Wrote features, heds, deks, and photo captions.
• Made all editorial corrections in InDesign files.

• Worked with clients such as Sprouts and ShopRite to create custom publications that boosted sales and customer engagement using nutrition- and recipe-based content.
• Developed proposals and editorial calendars for clients; worked with art director to create publication logos, taglines and templates; wrote, assigned, edited, copy edited, and did production on five quarterly custom publications.
• Worked closely with clients to ensure alignment with corporate objectives and standards.

• Edited, produced, budgeted, and marketed all association publications, including books, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, conference collateral, newsletters, and e-newsletters.
• Represented association at national and regional conferences.

• Managed in-house flow of editorial to art, as well as out-of-house prepress and printing stages for large book with audited circulation of 450,000.
• Conceptualized, assigned and edited special packages, features and two departments.
• Wrote features and news briefs.