Meet Your Farmers

We are Kyle, Mel and our 5 year old ray of sunshine Rosemary Blossom Burns.

We’re entering our tenth season farming together, arguing over which seed varieties to grow, playing baseball with over-grown turnips, blaming each other for forgetting to harvest the chard for market and dancing to Dolly Parton in the propagation tunnel together.

Mel was born and raised on the outskirts of Chico deep in nut country. While working on her BA in studio art she got a farm job at California Organic Flowers. During her three years there she fell in love with all the blood, sweat(so, so much sweat), tears and absolute beauty of organic farming. You can find her in the flower fields, baking treats for the crew with Rosemary, crafting wheat weavings, wreaths and herbal medicine.

Kyle grew up in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of Magalia and was homeschooled by his mother who he loved helping with in their big family garden. He started dabbling in agriculture classes, volunteering at market farms and growing ambitious backyard gardens while dreaming of farming. We met, started growing tomatoes together, fell in love and literally sold every thing we owned to start our first farm together at the Nye Ranch(read more about our farm journey here). We ran that market garden for 5 years before realizing we wanted to be closer to family. Kyle is the farm tomato king, garlic wizard & seed whisperer.

To learn more about our farm journey watch the Farmers Friend video!

Of course, we also need to make a shout out to all the lovely crew members we’ve had over the years, we wouldn’t be as vibrant and abundant without y’all. It’s been such a joy training young folks in the art of organic farming. Let’s keep the local food movement going strong!