Caleb Straus Peretz

After being raised in urban San Francisco, Caleb became fascinated with agriculture. He went on to study agricultural sciences at UC Davis and has since worked and learned at various farms. He attended a year-long learn to farm program at the Massachusetts Farm School, and then worked at holistic grazing ranches, small niche dairies, vegetable farms and orchards, and school farms. He teaches math and science at Wildwood Academy and mentors youth through nature coaching and land stewardship.

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Chelsey Therese Kolbeck

Chelsey is a mother, naturalist, artist, land steward and consultant working at the intersection of conscious activism, community organizing, and impact storytelling. She has co-created with Another World Is Possible, the Arlene Francis Center, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Summerfield Waldorf. She works from a trauma-informed place within the educational, environmental, and social realms, living and working with school farms, placed-based retreats, research institutions, and community centers. She finds joy and purpose in creating gift baskets of garden goods, bouquets of sweetness, herb bundles, colorful eggs, raw milk, and medicinal teas.

Noah Ray Kolbeck Peretz

Noah Ray chose this land to be birthed, he chose his family and called in all the animals to play. He is mesmerized by nature’s magic and has already begun napping under the canopy of oaks, pines, firs, and willow. He spends his days at the frog pond and river and is constantly watering the growing farm. He loves watching the baby chicks and getting kisses from Gwen the Goose. He visits the cows and loves watching the grass move in the wind, while listening to the honey bees buzz. His best friends are el burro, the flying cranes, the heart earth and the shooting star. He is growing up with the aunties and uncles he chose.

Sunali Sikand

Sunali believes the impossible becomes possible through the imagination. She helps fan the flames of those imaginings - a world where all entities can thrive in harmony. A magical muse of life’s elixirs, she crafts and creates beautiful happenings, be it in a cup of tea or a room full of beings, this mama right here is a treat for everyone to enjoy - she embodies love and joy and radiates compassion for all to experience.

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Kiana Anderson

Kiana is an animal loving person. Connecting with creatures and nature is where she is most happy. She enjoys being outdoors amongst the trees or working on land and hangin' with the dirt and the plants and the worms. You'll find her outside practicing bird calls with the doves and ravens and hummingbirds etc. Nature music is always on. Inside, she loves crocheting and listening to Spotify.

Andrea Livingston

Andrea found herself in this community in August of last year after hearing the call of the vision that Chelsey and Caleb were creating. Working remotely for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a nonprofit in the Bay Area that is bringing together science and spirituality. She loves immersing in beautiful nature and having conversations on the nature of reality!

Adrián Orozco Blair

Originating from Mexico, over the past 12 years Adrián became a therapist/artist/healer in the Bay Area of California. He is a peacemaker and enthusiast of responsible re-enchantment of our world. He loves a kind of community empathy improv theater called Playback Theater. He values and is thankful for the sense of sweet, kind, thoughtful relationship that makes and sustains this community farmstead. 

Rashawn and Liz

Finding the Farmstead along their path, becoming a part of the village arc, Rashawn and Liz are travelers by nature and lovers of the Earth and Spirit. During the winter of 2022-2023 they landed at the farmstead and soon became family. Experiencing quite a few different communities and home share situations, they describe the farmstead as the coziest home, the land is gorgeous and the people are even better. Continuing on their worldly travels, but forever a part of the village!

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Brave Crow

Brave Crow connected to the land, mates, littles, and animals here at the Community Farmstead, living on site during the winter 2022-23 season. He is Hunkpapa Lakota from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe located in north central South Dakota. He lived a traditional lifestyle growing up around his native language with many ceremonies, becoming more in depth with his heritage. Brave Crow is very passionate about archery, and hails from a tradition rooted in this living sport. He offers private and group sessions here on the land.

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Gabrielle Geller

Gabrielle found herself at The Community Farmstead during the winter season of 2022-2023. Helping prepare the winter apothecary, planting garlic in the snow, and working to coordinate the village vision conversations. As a movement artist and teacher, her style parallels and connects to the rhythms of the natural word in a body-based somatic healing, meditation, and breathwork practice. Most of her professional work has included nonprofit environmental and community-based advocacy that is centered by trauma informed care. Her hope and life commitment is to contribute to a world filled with more joy, peace, and sustainable living. 

Kathy Allen

One of the first neighbors we met here in Husum, when we first landed The Community Farmstead was Kathy, she welcomed us warmly, walking in the first giving garden we planted, she connected us to other neighbors and continued to believe in this service work of land regeneration and community building. Kathy is joining us during this third growing season, dedicating her time and energy towards the daily tending of the garden, seeding, watering, weeding, and praying. We are lucky to have her care here and she roots us deep into the layers of community support.

Buddha Brown

In living in the community that she grew up in, she is strengthening her connection with the land, community, and her family. Here at the community farmstead, she held the care of the chickens and water fowl. In the home, she enjoys baking weekly and snuggling with the farm cats. She loves being in the water and is learning about foraging. Called into motherhood, she moved on to be with her partner and this next chapter.

Yaeli Moonrise

Yaeli found us just a few months after out move to White Salmon, WA. Aligned with the land, animals, community, and vision she joined the farmstead for about 6 months. Inspired by the farm and animals she was called into land stewardship in Lyle and started Woven Home Farm with her pack of alpacas, her guardian dog, and her sweet kitties.