We’re a tiny team doing all the planting, cultivating, harvesting, and delivering!
It’s just Amy & Katy year round. And this season, for the first time, we have a couple of part-time crew members helping out with harvest and delivery.
Amy
I just love vegetables - cooking them, eating them, growing them, shopping for them. I don't know quite when this veggie obsession developed, but it started young. As a child, I loved exploring my grandmother’s huge vegetable garden on her farm in Illinois. “Farmer” has been on every list I’ve ever made of what to be when I grow up.
I was a gardener, food writer, science educator, and small business owner for many years in New Mexico. After returning to Seattle, I worked part time at Local Roots Farm for a couple of years, then finally took the plunge into the Viva Farms incubator program. Looking back, I realize I’ve been moving toward farming my whole life.
Katy
Farming has always been a life goal of mine, even though at times I didn’t know it was a career option. It started with a love for the outdoors and having an understanding of where food comes from.
Growing up in Washington gave me the opportunity to experience nature and the multitudes of interactions that occur between living beings. I was able to witness the effects of human consumption on the world around me. Now I am driven to be part of a more sustainable system that can support everyone and everything in our local environment.