Our Seed Partners

in 2012, Katie (AKA The Monarch Gardener) transformed her Ipswich property into a monarch waystation supporting monarch butterflies and hundreds of other native pollinator species. As an ecologist she quickly realized she could help others do the same. Since 2014, she has been helping local landowners transform their properties into their own havens for wildlife through her native pollinator host plant nursery. This spring she is expanding to Nutter Farm in Topsfield, MA where visitors will find over 100 species of northeastern US perennials and shrubs seedlings, the majority grown from Essex County, MA collected seed.

Indra of Maritima Gardens is a horticulturist and garden designer based on Cape Ann, MA. Specializing in naturalistic perennial gardens that celebrate beauty and biodiversity. Her designs create four seasons of interest, while providing refuge to humans and wildlife alike. She practices regenerative gardening —focusing on soil health and balanced ecosystems to control pests naturally and encourage lush, resilient plants.

Doug is the livestock manager and nursery manager for Lillooet Farm in Boxford, MA and his background includes experiential education, farming, gardening and land management. Guided by the patterns of Nature, he practices adaptive grazing with a flock of sheep while developing and enhancing a silvopasture landscape. He also serves as a Board member of NOFA/Mass where he promotes regenerative agriculture and a restorative food system by helping more people gain access to the resources needed to grow healthy food and foster local knowledge networks.

A community-oriented agriculture project with a vision, Here and There Grain Project is many things—a peri-urban farm, a seed cleaning facility, and a mill for locally grown staple crops (primarily grains) on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

Established in 2021 by a bread baker interested in working more closely with grains and soil, Here and There Grain Project aims to lower the barrier of entry for established farmers to incorporate grain production into their crop rotations through technical assistance and collaborative cultivation.

Dara has a degree in ecological horticulture, a background in regenerative agriculture, and is the owner and operator of Esperanza Farm in southern Maine.

Esperanza Farm, established in 2016, is a small, certified organic, no-till farm and homestead where Dara grows food, medicine, flowers and native plants with her family. Esperanza is less a traditional working farm and more a demonstration in observing and utilizing natural systems to produce nutritious food and medicine, and encourage a more cohesive ecosystem. Dara and her family like to visualize small farms and gardens everywhere as a way toward a brighter future for all

Aurelia’s Garden

Four Sprouts Farm
Massachusetts

Ivory Silo Farm
Massachsetts

New York