About the Farmer

Hi, I’m Jessica Stark!

I am honored you are here!

Before farming, I worked professionally in social work as a rape crisis counselor, supporting folks navigating the aftermath of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and worked in first response crisis counseling supporting sex trafficked minors as they navigated survival, healing, and the justice system.

Having my son shifted and clarified much in my life. Settling into land stewardship and tending to these acres, baby in tow, has been transformative and continues to offer healing. The healing I feel extends to helping heal the earth we are meant to care for by minding our relationship to soil and water.

We prioritize seasonal flexible employment for folks stepping back from social work because of secondary trauma and front line burnout, as well as folks healing from intimate partner violence. I love being able to provide a trauma informed environment where we can work and heal with the flowers, heal the earth, and offer natural beauty to elevate the special moments of our lives.

That means your support of our little local farm goes towards helping us tend to the soil health and watershed and supporting survivors as they are healing! Thank you!

Outside of my love of flowers and regenerative farming practices, I also love the somatic embodiment and release of dancing, singing in a local community choir, practicing art forms of many kinds, camping, foraging for berries, fighting for a better world, traveling to see beautiful nature and society differently through the eyes of other cultures, telling stories with my son, and biking on a tandem bicycle with my love!