Producer

Foothills Farm is a 200-acre farm in Skagit County—a living landscape shaped by care, curiosity, and respect for the natural world. We practice regenerative farming that works with nature, not against it, restoring soil health, protecting water, and encouraging a rich diversity of plants, animals, and microorganisms to thrive together. By nurturing biodiversity and honoring natural cycles, we grow food that is deeply rooted in this land and rich in nutrients, flavor, and vitality. Our farm is a place of renewal—where healthy ecosystems create healthy food, and where each season brings us closer to a more resilient and abundant future.

Foothills Farm grows your favorite varieties of Skagit strawberries, a handful of other berries, and over 90+ varieties of vegetables throughout the season. We operate at several farmers’ markets a week in the summer and three year-round markets from Whatcom to King County. We also wholesale to a diverse mix of restaurants, grocery stores, food banks (including Helping Hands in SW), school districts (Concrete and SW), and CSA aggregators.

A fifth-generation Skagitonian, I grew up on my family’s farm/homestead. Feeding the horses, cows, goats and pigs were just everyday chores; so was helping Nana with the daily, seasonal tasks of the garden. ‘Garden’ would not really be the scale-appropriate term to describe her half-acre of hand-cultivated passion that we ate out of year-round, but the space will always be Nana’s Garden. She grew food regeneratively and organically in the old ways; modern fertilizers, organic or not, never entered the soil. We were continuously making compost using the farm’s animal manure and bedding and would apply it to the garden every fall after summer crops were done. Nana’s Garden still has the best soil on the farm.

Foothills Farm is modeled after these same core values. We are stewards of our soil; we have a responsibility to our land, our community, and our employees to care for and leave this land better than we received it. Every decision regarding the farm is made through this lens. Currently, Foothills stewards ~200 acres in Eastern Skagit County. Most of the year, we will have 100-120 acres in some form of legume-based cover crop with cows or poultry mob grazing, doubling the functions of adding fertility.

I have taken this core ethos of regenerative stewardship with me into how I operate both in business and in life. If there is an opportunity to help and give back the knowledge that I have gained, I will take it. We are a species that thrives in co-operation, and we will only begin to be able to obtain our full potential through co-operation with each other.