Kyle began at the Center for Land-Based Learning in December 2025. They are delighted to be growing food for the Mobile Farmer’s Market and handling native habitat restoration on our headquarters farm at The Maples. Kyle grew up just-outside Davis, picking apricots at Impossible Acres, snacking on blackberries in Putah Creek, and climbing the old sycamores along Russell Boulevard. After 5 years in Maine for college and an agriculture apprenticeship, Kyle is back home putting down more roots— literally and metaphorically— in Yolo County.

Kyle first dipped their toes into at-scale farming on the harvest crew at Cloverleaf farm in Dixon. While falling in love with high-summer stonefruit, they gained valuable exposure to the harvest planning and crew leadership skills required for managing various markets— CSA, groceries, and farmer’s markets. Kyle brought their budding passion for agroecology and small-scale farming to the Riverfront Farm in 2021 as a Bowdoin College Kappa Psi Upsilon fellow. Working alongside other undergraduates equally eager to learn-by-doing, Kyle developed critical skills in pest management, irrigation systems, and urban soil remediation. When not harvesting, washing, or packing produce, Kyle joined our Community Food Ambassadors on the Mobile Farmer’s Market truck where they gathered input from our community members and brought it back to the harvest crew at Riverfront. Over the summer of 2023, they joined the Gaudin Agroecology Lab at UCD where they supported two post-graduate research projects— one exploring drought resilience in organic processing tomatoes, and the other on covercropping in vineyards. The research frameworks and methodologies helped Kyle integrate a socio-ecological systems perspective into their farming practice and guided them toward understanding why the human-nature connectedness in agriculture is so deeply instructive in how it teaches us to care for land.

In 2024, Kyle received a BA in Environmental Studies and Anthropology from Bowdoin. They stayed in southern Maine after graduation to continue building a sense of belonging and community in a ‘home’ so different from Yolo County. There they completed two seasons of the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship program at Wolfe’s Neck Center where they implemented and refined the regenerative grazing circuit for a 30-cow herd. When Kyle wasn’t busy milking, birthing calves, setting fence, and watching grass grow, they dove into coursework exploring pasture agronomy and soil health. While dairying in Maine, Kyle also supported small family farms like Stillbrook Acres and Winter Hill Farm where they milked cows, helped with small livestock care, and made artisanal cheese.

Kyle’s love of food, agroecology, and home led them back to CLBL where they’re excited to join the Farm & Climate Program and continue building out the organization’s vision for The Maples farm alongside innovative partners. Also an avid reader, runner, and creek splasher, Kyle brings a sense of play, presence, and place into all they do.