We believe in the expansive potential of imagination!
Mark Jacobs
Mark Jacobs is the farmer and owner of Jacobs Agro. He brings extensive farming knowledge with him as a 5th generation farmer from Guyana, where his family still farms today. Mark has farmed in Guyana, Haiti, and the US. Mark is an experienced farm instructor who has trained over 100 persons in techniques and principles of rooftop and urban gardening. He is also a US Army Veteran.
Ranald Jacobs
Adrianna Santiago
Adrianna Santiago is an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer and educator. She received her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and her BFA from the University of Colorado, Denver. Her work with communities focuses on social and environmental themes. Adrianna’s care for issues surrounding wellness, mental health, preservation and accessibility are at the heart of her creative process. She creates site specific installations and mixed media artwork. Adrianna’s recent focus in working collaboratively with her mother, Celine has been supportive in her explorations of intergenerational and nature based artworks on the farm.
Yvon Caridnal
Yvon Caridnal is a farmer from Haiti. He has a multi-generational family farming history. He learned greenhouse and outdoor growing, as well meat production from his father and grandfather on their family farm in Haiti. He also farmed in Guyana before coming to Washington. Beyond his farming background, Yvon is also a metal fabrication welder. He loves to build and keep his hands busy with metal creations.
Sonia Gomez
Sonia Gomez is a caregiving steward of the land and humans. She is a Mexican-American illustrator, painter, bead weaver, and embroidery artist. She has a passion for working with people to journey with her hand-poked tattoo artistry. With an eye for details, Sonia brings much beauty to the spaces that she works as part of her offering to the team. When she is not dedicating her loving attention to her son, she can be found working on her artwork or connecting with nature in her endeavors.
Amadian
Amadian is a lover of flora and fauna and everything in between.
He is ready for true community here in Port Townsend,
the prettiest town he’s ever seen.
Dana van Ness
Certified Master Integrative Life Coach with 20 years experience coaching youth, families, individuals, and veterans. Service is my watchword. Reading is my joy.
When I’m not serving clients I am with my heartbeats at home or having quiet and solitude in nature.
I value love, kindness, and beauty.
Shongi Motsi
Born as a proud Zimbabwean and Zambian immigrant, raised loudly in Dallas, Texas, and a wondrous settler of the PNW, Shongi is a new proud member of Jefferson County and the Port Townsend community. They are a natural skin care herbal remediest, fabric designer and dyer, and music curator and performer.
Chasity Sade
Chasity Sade is a mother, naturalist, and mentor to youth. She served as the Lead Teacher and Program Manager for the Heartberries Nature School hosted at Shy Acre. From 2020, she led nature immersion and exploration classes for children ages 2-13. Running wild in nature with kids is her bliss.
Chasity is currently on a sabbatical furthering her skills and knowledge in the realm of early childhood education in her pursuit to open a licensed nature preschool school. She is also developing community housing, education and healing arts programming on the land where she resides under the umbrella of Earthee, her spiritual non-profit with a mission to seek the divine through connection with nature.
Celine Santiago
Celine has over 20 years of Real Estate Asset Management experience. She is the managing member of Designated Eight Enterprises and the Port Townsend Preservation Alliance. She is a graduate of the California State University, Fullerton where she received her BA in Organismic Systems Biology. She completed masters work in Psychology at California State University, San Bernardino. She taught children with special needs for five years. She has an extensive background in landscape design and management.