Our Team

City Farm SLO is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization tasked with maintaining the Calle Joaquin Agricultural Reserve, educating and engaging the community in sustainable farming practices. It is done entirely by volunteers! Meet the dedicated people that make City Farm SLO an integral part of our local food system.

board members

PRESIDENT

Steven Marx

TREASURER

TY GRIFFIN

BOARD MEMBER

HUNTER FRANCIS

VICE PRESIDENT

KAYLA RUTLAND

SECRETARY

linda halisky

BOARD MEMBER

aIMEE WYATT

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CONTRACT STAFF

EDUCATOR

TREE LEES

SITE MANAGER

SHANE LOVELL

WEB ADMIN

DANIELLE RAISS

Meet the tenant farmers that form the collective of small, independent organic farmers on City Farm SLO’s 19-acre parcel.

Red Barn Farms

Owner Javier Magana has grown a wide variety of produce at City Farm since 2015. His regular customers include Novo Restaurant, SLO Veg, SLO and AG Farmers markets, and San Luis Coastal Unified School District Food Service.

Javier Magana

Carmichael Environmental

No-till, food forest production (perennial) crops along the farm perimeter with annual row crop rotations in the heart of the area.

Joshua Carmichael

fox and rye farm

Katie Ikard has run an urban farm in Portland for the last three years. She is practicing no-till, carbon-farming methods on her two-acre leased parcel at City Farm SLO.

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Katie Ikard

mariposa education

Shea St John and family have introduced a Waldorf inspired Outdoor Education program starting August 2020. Learn more at https://mariposacentralcoast.org/

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Shea St John

Basurto Fresh Farms

Abimael Basurto and his family grow fava beans, peas, green beans and peas and markets to Oceano and Santa Maria wholesalers.

Abimael Basurto

Cory Richmond

Main crops are heirloom tomatoes and peas as well as cabbage, beans pumpkins and cilantro. Customers in San Fransisco and LA as well as local distributors and stores such as Berry Man, Derango produce, Spencers and California Fresh.