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Sweet Hollow Farm is a multiracial, queer worker-owned cooperative farm growing vegetables & herbs on one acre of Coast Salish lands in Woodinville, WAWhat We Want, What We Believe
We believe in growing plants we love– foods from the uncommon, the unclaimed and reclaimed, the never homogenous or easy to pin down corners of where food becomes culture. Armed with the sensual, liberatory power of food and a love of complexity, we want to transform our relationship with food, land, and care. We want to build the models we need to end capitalism and see the de-commodified and liberated food systems we deserve. We believe that stewarding land and the foodshed is a form of community care, a way we practice interdependence with our environment and each other. We want that stewardship to be free, reciprocal, accessible, and transformative. We farm to support the right of self-determination for all people over their bodies, lives, and foodways. We believe in a creative and collaborative relationship with the communities we are a part of and serve. |
Our purpose as Sweet Hollow Farm is to use
sustainable agriculture as a means to nourish and strengthen
community self-determination and agency in the food system.
What We Do
We serve Seattle and King County through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, mobile farmstands, and partnerships with community based organizations. Over the past years, our farm has partnered closely with local food access and mutual aid organizations to build out systems of food distribution and direct marketing that serve BIPOC, disabled, low income, and elder community members, increasing access to fresh, affordable, locally grown produce. Sweet Hollow Farm is a member of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, serving our long term goal to grow as a worker owned cooperative. Both Sweet Hollow farmers present regularly about the needs and futures of anti-oppressive, anti-capitalist agriculture and food systems.
Please note: mobile farmstands are on hiatus for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We serve Seattle and King County through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, mobile farmstands, and partnerships with community based organizations. Over the past years, our farm has partnered closely with local food access and mutual aid organizations to build out systems of food distribution and direct marketing that serve BIPOC, disabled, low income, and elder community members, increasing access to fresh, affordable, locally grown produce. Sweet Hollow Farm is a member of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, serving our long term goal to grow as a worker owned cooperative. Both Sweet Hollow farmers present regularly about the needs and futures of anti-oppressive, anti-capitalist agriculture and food systems.
Please note: mobile farmstands are on hiatus for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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meet the farmers
veroVero is a queer, nonbinary, disabled, and multiracial Chilean-mestizo person with Mapuche ancestry. Vero came into farming and food systems work as a way of building a meaningful relationship to land and people; to practice their politics and enact community through land based work; and to restore connection with their cultural histories and ancestral foods. Vero weaves farming together with practical knowledge of food systems development, food sovereignty, and anti-oppressive food access towards transformative and autonomous food systems futures. They are working to start Groundwork, a regional food hub focused on food access and food sovereignty, building community food systems for all. They work with the Food Access & Aggregation Community Team (FAACT) and the Pacific Northwest BIPOC Food Systems Network to support land, food, and infrastructure access for BIPOC, multiply and historically marginalized communities. Vero is a strategist and consultant working with agriculture and food systems organizations. When they’re not at the farm or in a meeting, Vero loves to cook and feast as often as possible with the ones they love. Looking to connect with Vero about consulting, speaking, or other collaborative work? Email vero@sweethollowfarm.org. |
caitlinCaitlin is a white, queer trans woman, born and raised in Michigan and shaped by her years in Oakland, CA. She’s a first generation farmer, brought up in a horse town turned suburb with little connection to the land. In her brief time on earth she’s been a lot of things - cook, DJ, semi-pro marxist historian, dishwasher, sound tech, writer, and intern at organic farms and food justice organizations. Above it all, she is a farmer, and she is endlessly moved and excited by caring for the land and growing food for her community. Caitlin hopes that Sweet Hollow can be a force for liberation - connecting us, feeding us, and building an economy and food system that truly belongs to everybody. She’s dreaming of an end to the white supremacist-settler colonial-capitalist system, and has devoted her life to learning from and working with others who share that dream. |
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