Who Are We?
Jackie Raehl - Farmer, co-founder
Jackie has a bachelor's degree in Plant Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and also studied natural resources. She worked at Denver Botanic Gardens for about 4 years as a horticulturist, and worked the year before that at a small botanical garden in Wisconsin. Jackie is pictured here with her beautiful daughter, Willow... whom has recently become quite the little farmhand and seedsaver herself!
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Workshares, and other rockstars and volunteers that help our farm to grow! It takes a village to run the farm!
Don't let this picture fool you, We have lots of folks to be thankful for here at the farm! There are so many that dedicate themselves each season to helping plant, harvest, sell, and share produce with our CSA and farmers market customers. To: Micaela, Beckie and Ken, Becky, Marcia, Kathy, Nathan, Amy, Jack, Jenny, Chris, Maureen, Melissa, Pat, and many more that volunteer at the farm- THANK YOU from the bottom of my farmgirl heart, for helping this farm to succeed and serve the community that we love!
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Liz Tanner -Resident Artist
Liz was born and raised in the midwest, but most recently migrated to Colorado from Northern California, where she taught children about the ocean and giant redwoods. She enjoys making music, playing with her puppy Banjo, exploring the great Rocky Mountains, and making woodcut prints. Lis created our beautiful logo, modeled after the state's 5th largest cottonwood tree, visible from Star Acres.
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A couple lucky farmdogs...
Buck's our resident chicken guardian, and keeps our flock safe from predators as they free-range in the pasture. He's also happy to snack on cucumbers, potatoes, and peas when we have extras!
 Banjo's all grown up now, but we just love this photo of this little guy! |
...and a few of our barnyard friends!
Quite a few well fed cluckers call our backyards home. We have an assortment of heritage breeds including Ameracaunas, Red Stars, a Leghorn, Barred Rocks, Cuckoo Marans, Brahmas, Silver Spangled Hamburgs, a Golden Campine, Rhode Island Reds and Australorps. Most of them have names, and they all have distinctive personalities! We'll be working on getting a larger chicken coop built during the winter this year, so stay tuned for the chance to see our 'girls' at the farm next season. Eggs will be available for purchase only at the farm stand!
And our hardworking draft horses...
And meet Cain and Pete, our favorite team of draft horses that help us to keep the farm tidy. They live down the road, and visit the farm to run their antique equipment around our fields, with their owners, Ken and Beckie- a very talented couple that are always going the extra mile to keep our farm looking and running great!
“I am beginning to know why I am here, and why I want to stay… Foremost, my work and my pleasure are one and the same thing. I can make fewer and fewer distinctions between what I must do to make a living and what I want to do with my time. There are few places that I want to leave this place for. This very ordinary piece of land has become my home, my office, my laboratory, and on it I am able to work, play, study, and live, all the while enjoying an environment that is so beautiful, so stimulating, and so seductive
that I have become unfit to live elsewhere.”
From A Small Farm in Maine by Terry Silber
