Director of Farming Programs - Chrys Ostrander

Chrys Ostrander, an organic farmer for over two decades and a respected sustainable agriculture activist, is the Director of Farming Programs for p.e.a.c.h. and lead farmer in residence at p.e.a.c.h. Community Farm. He has over 30 years involvement in the organic food movement-- in production, marketing, distribution and management. Twenty of those years were spent living, farming and organizing at Tolstoy Farm, the oldest (established 1963), still-surviving, non-religious intentional community in the US, located near Davenport WA, 35 miles West of Spokane. His interests and expertise include micro-farming, organic gardening, seed saving, raising dairy goats, sustainable homesteading, permaculture, parenting, activism, computer skills (i.e. web design, web-based activism, digital graphics), intentional community, photography, herbology, cooking and music.