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