Sarah Sims

Hello! I started farming as a summer job in 2013 in Charlotte, Vermont, and continued until this year gaining experience on a range of farms in the U.S, Canada, and Hawai’i. I studied sustainable agriculture at Green Mountain College, and finished my undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and Agroecology at the University of Vermont. Most of my experience is in organic vegetable production - at Stoney Loam Farm and Philo Ridge Farm in Charlotte, Vermont, and Bear Roots Farm in Barre, Vermont. I then moved to Los Alamos, California where I managed a small 2-acre market garden and started my own cut flowers. Most recently, I helped turn a vacant lot into a productive 10 acre organic farm in Carpinteria, CA. My partner and I are looking for land in Maine, where he’s from, to start a diversified enterprise. The business plan will depend on the land we find, but my dream is to start a farm heavily focused on community and land health, that will eventually house education programs, events, small-scale livestock, vegetables, fruit, and flowers -but open to what the world offers

Don’t have a written business plan, but many years of mulling over the dream plan. I’m in the beginning stages of the search for land, so the business plan is a work in progress and will feel more urgent when land feels accessible.