Co-Owners, Founders + Forest-Dwellers

It all began with a dream. We envision a way to provide ourselves and our family with a return to something simple.

Steve and Mac met at a house show in Central Texas nearly 14 years ago, thanks to Ralph, Steve’s best friend, the best black Labrador retriever you could ever meet. It took a little time, but Ralph made his choice pretty clear when he found his forever mama!

Since then, Steve and Mac have chased the sun across the country and found their corner in the Pacific Northwest, where they’ve dabbled in all sorts of adventures, including building a family.

Mac is the operations guru, the policy builder and planner, with a background in multi-unit retail management and people and culture leadership. Steve is a subject matter expert of many skills, including the ability to play just about any stringed instrument, former small photography business owner and most recently, home inspector.

We are so glad we get to share our forest farm vision with our community, and we can’t wait to see what’s next in this awfully big adventure.

Farmhands In-training

These two guys are Mac and Steve’s foundational inspiration for the homestead. As parents, Mac and Steve have always longed to impart education and growth in ways that partner in harmony with the lessons learned in the classroom, and what better way to do that than by getting your hands a little dirty!

Equal parts business-minded and creative, you might catch these two little silvofarming humans working with the animals or running a pop-up coffee stand while you’re out visiting us! They are industrious, busy and so very imaginative.

Conservation and taking care of the environment is impactful in our community and has wide-reacting impacts all across the world, and A & A are our environmental ambassadors on the farm; don’t hesitate to ask one of them where you can recycle or compost items that might come with you on your visit! They are also trail masters, and might even show you the secret paths to the coolest spots onsite if you ask them for guidance!

Don’t let their sizes fool you — these dudes are mighty and full of amazing bright ideas for how they see the world around them, and they are just about the coolest two people we know.