Faith B. Kuehn
Faith B. Kuehn currently works as a Delaware Department of Health and Social Services’ contract employee, leading efforts to restore and dignify the three Potter’s Field cemeteries on the Herman Holloway Campus is New Castle. She served as Environmental Program Administrator for the Delaware Department of Agriculture’s Plant Industries from 2001-2018. Specific program responsibilities included nursery, apiary, noxious weeds, and invasive species. In 2006, she led a Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant to catalog native bees in Delaware’s vegetable production areas, and worked with farmers to establish bee conservation practices on their farms. In 2015, she received a grant from the USDA to develop and implement Delaware’s Pollinator Protection Plan. In 2017, together with a Delaware farm family, she received a SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) grant to establish pollinator buffers on their poultry farm. Faith served on the Delaware Native Species Task force, which established the Delaware Native Species Commission. Starting in 2010, Faith developed Planting Hope community and therapeutic gardens at DHSS’s Holloway Campus and Delaware Psychiatric Center. These are now managed by Bright Spot Farms and Planting to Thrive.
Faith earned a Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Arizona in 1984, a M.S. in Botany and Zoology from the University of Oklahoma, a B.A. in Zoology from Connecticut College. and an M.B.A from the University of Delaware in 1994. Before employment with the Delaware Department of Agriculture, Faith worked as Museum Director for the Insectarium in Philadelphia; and in Research, Development, Marketing, and Technical Support positions within E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.’s Crop Protection Division.
She is a certified Delaware Master Naturalist. She serves as the Public Member of the Delaware Cemetery Board and is the President of the Delaware First State Cemetery Association.
