The skills taught at Seattle Farm School represent a growing movement toward locally produced, homegrown essentials. These skills are accessible to anyone, but often feel foreign and overwhelming because they are no longer part of a generational transfer of knowledge. I started Seattle Farm School because I have personally experienced the importance and joy of …
Kristen Corning Bedford is the founder and president of philanthro∙be, a consulting company that helps individuals and businesses create sustainable and strategic giving plans. Through retreats, speaking engagements and seminars, philanthro·be encourages people to clarify their legacies in order to align their philanthropy with their actions and become intentional about what and how they give. Kristen is a …
Kellie moved to Seattle two years ago from New England and absolutely loves the mountains, the water, and the people of the Pacific Northwest. She serves on the board of Sustainable West Seattle and has experience not only in edible gardening but cheese making and knitting too! Despite growing up in the country, Kellie loves …
Seattle Farm School welcomes Kellie Phelan to the teaching team! Read More »
Jeremy Puma, a resident of West Seattle, is Certified in Holistic Landscape Design from Bastyr University. He received his Permaculture Design Certificate through Bastyr and the Permaculture Institute of North America. He is Co-Editor of, and Writer at Invironment, an online publication dedicated to Food, Farming, and the Environment. Invironment can be found at medium.com/invironment or Invironment.ca. …
SEATTLE FARM SCHOOL WELCOMES JEREMY PUMA TO THE TEACHING TEAM! Read More »
Holly comes from a long line of farmers. She grew up visiting her grandparents and aunts and uncles on their family farms and it made perfect sense that she would go on to attend college at a small farm school in western North Carolina. Holly sees urban farming as a natural extension of her roots. …
SEATTLE FARM SCHOOL WELCOMES HOLLY BRISCOE TO THE TEACHING TEAM! Read More »
We are thrilled to have Vivian join our teaching team as an expert yarn spinning instructor! Here’s a little about Vivian: My husband and I retired to West Seattle just over a year ago, to half-time babysit our newborn granddaughter. We had lived for 38 years in the Skagit Valley, the last 25 on a …
SEATTLE FARM SCHOOL WELCOMES VIVIAN MIZUTA TO OUR TEACHING TEAM! Read More »