Our People

Mac mentors Threefold Community Farm staff and interns. Mac began farming in 1975, when he had the “privilege and good fortune” to learn biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of biodynamic pioneer Ehrenfried Pfeiffer at the Fellowship Community. In 2006, Mac became the Program Director of the Pfeiffer Center and is the core instructor of our Biodynamic Course.

As Farm Manager, Megan coordinates the daily work on our farm, and is an instructor in our One-Year Part-Time Training. She takes a leading role in planning and carrying out our annual Plant Sale and each season’s vegetable production. She directs our seed saving, herb growing, and herbal product production; manages our CSA, Farm Stand, and sales to other outlets. She is our beekeeping manager. Megan is a board member of the Nature Institute. Megan joined the Pfeiffer Center as an intern in 2006 and became a staff member in 2010. In 2014-2015, she studied seed saving under Harald Hoven at Raphael Garden in Fair Oaks, CA.

Kim joined TCF as one of the founding farmers in 2018 as our Dairy manager. She is thrilled to continue contributing her non-farming skills in a more focused role as the Farm Administrator, overseeing all aspects of educational programming, fiscal responsibility, fundraising, events, and community relationship building. Kim first met biodynamics in 2010 at a year-long course with Harald Hoven at Raphael Garden in Fair Oaks, CA. She soon joined their CSA and became a star volunteer, serving on the steering committee, organizing fundraisers, and milking the cows on weekends. Simultaneously, she became involved in the parent guild at Sacramento Waldorf School, chairing several large fundraising events while her son was in attendance there. In 2016, Kim stepped away from Waldorf kindergarten teaching to become a full-time apprentice at Raphael Garden, followed by a summer at Fulcrum Farm in Grass Valley, CA, where she helped tend a small herd of Scottish Highland cows. She continues her relationship with TCF’s herd through weekly milking and training her team of working steers, Tim and Tyler.

Looking for somewhere to work on the land in service to others, Natasha joined the farm team in May of 2021. Natasha is returning to biodynamics, having grown up at the Fellowship Community where it was part of everyday life. She also completed an internship at the Pfeiffer Center in 2014 between college and graduate school. Natasha brings a diverse set of skills to the farm; she’s been an equine assisted learning facilitator, a gardener, a project manager for historic preservation, and a carpenter. Natasha’s work focuses largely on the horses and the dairy, and she is dedicated to developing the farm’s capacity to use draft animal power to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.

From a young age, Courtney has always been an avid lover of the natural world. She was first introduced to biodynamics in Camphill Copake in 2010. From there, the journey to continue learning led her to Sacramento, where she worked with Harold Hoven at Rudolf Steiner College. In 2016 she did an internship for a year and a half at The Pfieffer Center. This was followed by an internship at Natural Roots Farm, to continue her training of farming with draft horses. Courtney has now returned to Threefold Community Farm where she assists with a variety of work on the farm, from greenhouse tasks to field work, including her passion of caring for and working with our draft horses. Most recently she has begun to assist Megan with caring for our apiary.

As Farm Educator, Shannon is responsible for Youth Programming. She leads Green Meadow Waldorf School’s Third Grade Farming Year, Nature Place Day Camp’s farm activities, and Farm Classes for Endeavor 21, a program for young adults with diverse abilities. Shannon has a BA in Psychology and Art and a Masters in Elementary Education. After 14 years of working in progressive schools, she left teaching to more seriously study and train as a biodynamic farmer. In 2016, she attended The Pfeiffer Center’s Year Long Part Time training, and began working as a farm hand and farm manager for various biodynamic and CSA farms. In 2021 she finished the Farmer Foundation Program through the Biodynamic Association.

Brian makes cheese and vegetable-based ferments at Threefold Community Farm. Brian was trained as a poet. He has worked as a speechwriter, a strategy consultant, a facilitator, a professor, cook and gardener, and he built by hand a timber-frame cabin in the woods, where he spent five years reading, writing and meditating. He is Executive Director of Harmony Labs, a media research lab with a vision for media systems that support democratic culture and healthy, happy people. He also serves as President of the New York Vipassana Association.

Sara is an intern on the farm with a focus on the dairy. She came to us from Ohio and this is her second season working on a farm. She has experience working outside on a trail crew and as a camp counselor. Sara is interested in biodynamic farming as a way to heal the land and serve community. In her free time she loves reading, camping, and ceramics. She loves being outside and feeling connected with the natural world.

Ben is an intern at the Threefold Community Farm for the 2025 season. He is new to biodynamic farming, but has been gardening for the past two years at Sirius Ecovillage and the Omega Institute. He is passionate about astrology, mythology, nature, community, and all kinds of therapeutic practices. In his spare time you can find him reading, walking in the woods, or casting magic circles.