Backing the Hands That Feed
Trust can be grown like a crop.
We exist to carry the work that often goes unseen. Work that strengthens farmers, supports healthy ecosystems, increases capacity and helps build food systems rooted in care, resilience, and longevity.
At Farmhand, we don’t offer one kind of help.
We show up with an emergent system:
Three core programs of support that strengthen our region’s regenerative food system.
For generations, Indigenous peoples across the Americas have planted corn, beans, and squash together, a practice known as the Three Sisters. This method is more than agriculture—it’s a teaching about interdependence. Each plant gives what the others need: corn provides structure, beans enrich the soil, and squash offers protection. Together, they yield abundance and resilience.
Farmhand’s three programmatic areas reflect the same wisdom. Each is vital on its own, but only in relationship do they help farmers build resilient farms, livelihoods, and communities.
Our newest program!
Seed Punks
Seed Punks grows California native seed where it belongs. Seeds are grown at Moon + Oaks Farm in Ojai. In collaboration with farmers and orchardists across working fields and understories. Choosing place based seed production over scale, keeping seed adapted to local conditions and in circulation and doing it with attitude and humor. As part of Farmhand Foundation’s broader work in regenerative farming, orchard stewardship, and land based enterprises, Seed Punks supports biodiversity, soil health, and supplemental income for growers.
Farmers Prosper
We’re steady partners, offering practical, innovative, community-based support—from regenerative organic transition to technical assistance, leasing options, and writing grants. By easing labor stress, strengthening resilience, and fostering community ties, we help ensure prosperity is rooted in true profit, in well-being, relationships, and thriving local food systems
Thriving Ecosystems
The heart of our ecological stewardship is focused on cultivating soil, plant, and animal health across Moon + Oaks Farm and beyond. Through on-farm trials, technical assistance, and collaborative research, we support farmers transitioning to organic practices and regenerative methods. This work is grounded in field-based experimentation, seasonal education, and ongoing monitoring to better understand how these practices strengthen farm ecosystems over time.
Regenerative Markets Expand
Growing good food isn’t enough.
Farmers deserve markets that recognize the quality and value of their work and are happy to pay for it.
We work to make regenerative farming viable, visible, and worth the risk. That means opening new markets, strengthening existing ones, and helping farmers move from good practices to real demand.
This work is connected. Build capacity, care for ecosystems, open markets. From soil to shelf.