
More Than a Farm
Trust can be grown like a crop.
A farm is more than a farm, it’s a conversation.
Between roots and rain, past and future, people and place. It’s kinship in motion: human and more-than human. A farm is a place to return to year on year confident in the knowledge that with each passing season the roots grow deeper, stronger, and more integrated. It’s where we honor the wisdom of those who’ve long tended land as kin, not commodity. We begin with this truth: That farmers are not separate from their environment. They are their environment. As integral a part as the worms and the compost, the cows and the fruit.
We believe that farmers are more than producers. They’re keepers: of soil, of seed, of memory. They carry with them what most of us have forgotten: how to live in rhythm with a place.
Our work is to back them, like any good farmhand. To be useful. To pull our weight. To show up early and to stay late. To offer a reliable hand in a world that often forgets who keeps it happy and fed.
We don’t pretend the work is easy. And we know it’s essential. So we listen, listen, listen, and in so doing, we learn.
We lend support where it’s needed most. Not from a distance. From here. From the field.
Farmhand
We Back the Hands That Feed
The helping hands behind our foundation.
NATIONAL BOARD
GRIFFIN BARKLEY
Founder
JUSTIN SCHNEIR
Founder & Chairman
CHRISTINA O’KEEFE
Director of Sustainability,
Kerry North America
JEFFREY HOLLENDER
Founder, Seventh Generation
LOCAL ADVISORY BOARD
JULIE TUMAMAIT-STENSLIE
Chumash Elder
ALEXIS PLANK-GEORGE
Farm Folk + Hands
NIC GEORGE
Farm Folk + Hands
FARMHAND LEADERSHIP
WHITNEY CLAPPER
Executive Director
ZACH HEYMAN
Thriving Ecosystem Program Director
ELIZABETH WHITLOW
Regenerative Organic Advisor
DR. STEPHANIE BLEDSOE
Agronomy Advisor
BRE SLIKER
Grants Officer
LOREN LUYENDYK
Regenerative Agriculture
Practitioner