Green Valley Farm + Mill's co-founders bring a depth of experience to all aspects of management, from the built environment to beyond organic farming.
We heartfully acknowledge and honor the Southern Pomo, Coast Miwok and Kashaya Pomo peoples who stewarded this land for over a millennia in deep relationship and welcome descendants to reach out to connect for a conversation or a visit anytime. And, we are deeply grateful for the many land-based contributions of Scott Kelley and Aubrie Maze, long-term stewards of Green Valley, as well as David and Kayta Plescia of Green Valley Community Farm who farmed on the land from 2017 - 2021.
Josiah Raison Cain - Land & Conservation Manager. Josiah developed a keen interest in sustainable design at an early age and founded a sustainable design and build company soon after college. He received an MA Design Engineers as Director of Innovation.
Josiah’s skills include the development and implementation of a wide variety of ecological design applications including food systems, green roofs, living walls, rainwater harvesting, graywater, blackwater, biofiltration. He has managed habitat restoration planning and implementation for a variety of clients including civic, institutional, commercial, and residential and excels at landscape design, organic farm master planning, mixed use redevelopment, and district infrastructure.
email: raison at gvfam.com
Temra Costa - Land Manager. Temra is a mom, regenerative land stewardship practitioner and educator, founder of Regenerative Forest Solutions, Board Member of the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District, and an award-winning author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat.
Dedicated to creating conditions conducive for all life through learning and action, Temra applies herself toward helping build a more just and healthy future for all through her work to create more resilient rural working landscapes and communities.
email: temra at gvfam.com | insta: @temra @regenerativeforestsolutions
Jeremy Fisher - Built Environment & Land Manager. With over 20-years of experience managing multi-million dollar ecological design and construction projects, Jeremy manages onsite infrastructure and renovation at Green Valley. His goal is to create an exemplary, well-designed, energy-efficient, and beautiful community to call home. When he has time, you can find him happily designing and building furniture.
Husband to Temra and father of their two boys, Teo and Quin, Jeremy was born in an off-the-grid community in the Cazadero hills of Sonoma County. He holds a MS in Architecture from UC Berkeley and is a master builder and construction project manager. While at Berkeley, he researched deep energy retrofits at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Jeremy’s project portfolio includes the development of a sustainable rum facility in Belize, a restaurant build out in Oakland and the management of ongoing design/build projects with local green building pioneer Bruce Hammond and Company. He is a co-founder of Forestree Collective, a company creating “forest goods that are good for the forest” and a recipient of the Sonoma County Biobiz competition in 2021.
email: jeremy at gvfam.com | insta: @jeremyosiris @forestreecollective
Scott Kelley - Facilities Manager. Scott is fixer of all things Green Valley. A former artist and a well curated Jack of All Trades, Scott brings to the table a memorized map of the land, including the location of underground water lines as well as where the meadow foam first comes up in the Spring. He has a background in mechanics and construction and has thrived in tending to the daily needs of Green Valley since 2010.
Descending from a long line of farmers and ranchers, Scott is continuing his heritage by raising cattle on the land with his partner Aubrie, as Bramble Tail Homestead.
email: scottkelley at gvfam.com | insta: @brambletailhomestead
Aubrie Maze - Operations Manager. Aubrie has dedicated her life to the traditional arts of land-based skills. With a background in herbal medicine and animal husbandry, Aubrie weaves the lives of humans with our essential, connective and productive relationship with plants and animals here at Green Valley. Having lived for on the land since 2008, Aubrie continues to deepen her relationship to this land by raising animals alongside her partner Scott Kelley, growing medicinal herbs and tending to wildlands.
Aubrie has spent her adult years living in various intentional communities since falling in love with community while living at the Berkeley student co-ops. During these years she has gained deep knowledge of the internal structures that support such communities, and she continues to dedicate her organizational skills to helping the behind-the-scenes world of Green Valley thrive, from financial management to governance design, tending to the web of humans and projects that make up the collective of Green Valley.
email: aubrie at gvfam.com | insta: @aubriemaze @brambletailhomestead
Jeff Mendelsohn - Finance Manager. Jeff is the founder and former chair of New Leaf Paper, a company with the mission of driving a fundamental shift toward sustainability in the paper industry. Jeff has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the 30 top social entrepreneurs. New Leaf was awarded Best for the Environment among all B Corporations for the last three years running.
Jeff has actively contributed to the growth of the sustainable business community over the last 20 years through public speaking, guest lecturing at leading business schools, and ongoing engagement in sustainable business forums such as Social Venture Network.
email: jeff.mendelsohn at gvfam.com