Farmher Tiffany
is the full time farmer behind Wise Acre Farm
First generation farmers
Meant to be a farmer
Tiffany was born in Healdsburg, later moving to Windsor when the town started to grow in the early 90s. Tiffany’s family in fact moved to a house on Equity court; which backed up to Arata Ln and a second story window overlooked a small sheep ranch. Every Spring you could see a little blond girl sitting in her parents’ bedroom window watching the lambs frolic around with endless energy. The same pasture is now home to the most well loved flock of hens in Sonoma County. No one could have guessed the same girl would grow up and one day be working this pasture.
But that is exactly what happened. Tiffany, formerly an elementary school secretary, loved her school job but felt like something was missing. While on her lunch break she stumbled across an online posting of a farm for sale. She had been following the journey of the farm and knew she had to do everything and anything to jump on this opportunity.
A flock boss is born
After seeing Wise Acre Farm for sale everything else was put on hold. She had finally found her passion and nothing was going to stop her. What started as a small hobby farm in the backyard which included a summer vegetable garden, a bunny and a flock of 12 chickens grew overnight to 15 acres of leased property with 1,500 hens, 350 chicks, 4 goats, 2 geese and 1 huge livestock guardian dog!
After getting an offer approved, one month of training was arranged with Bryan, the founder of the farm. Tiffany learned the ropes of the daily farm routine. Which included feed and water, to moving the custom build fleet of chicken coops, to repairing hoses. We can’t forget the eggs. Hundreds and hundreds of eggs that have to be processed everyday by being hand washed and sorted by size and quality.
Since then, Tiffany is also currently holding the self-appointed titles of electrician, mechanic, carpenter, vet tech, accountant, website designer, CPA, dog trainer, marketing maven, and welder. Stuff breaks on farms. On Friday evenings. In the middle of huge storms. Problems have to be solved right then and there. This is when this farmher thrives.
Farmer Jason
Déjà vu
Jason had a similar start in life as his wife Tiffany. He was born in Healdsburg and also moved to Windsor in the late 1980s. He grew up down the street from his future wife but they didn’t meet until his cousin set them up on a blind date in 2006. In 2006 Jason also started a job on the cellar crew at Chalk Hill Winery in Healdsburg. He has since became the warehouse manager and supervisor during bottling. After work is done at the winery Jason comes straight to the farm to help Tiffany close the farm.
Support
In April of 2016 Jason’s office phone rang. Tiffany was on the other end and without a hello stated that they were going to be chicken farmers. Happy wife, happy life is basically how the story plays out. Without his constant support and encouragement Tiffany would have fallen apart long ago. Jason is the voice of reason and has mastered the art of saying NO. If it wasn’t for Jason’s common sense Tiffany would have rescued all the farm animals that need a home and the farm would be out of business with so many mouths to feed. Partners need balance and our farmers demonstrate this daily.
And they lived happily ever after