Meet your farmer-
My name is Upingakraq (time when the ice breaks) Spring Alaska Schreiner is the owner and Principal Ecologist-Indigenous Agriculturalist of Sakari Farms/Sakari Botanicals and the Central Oregon Seed Exchange. I am an enrolled member and shareholder of the Chugach Alaska Native Corporation and Valdez Native Tribe. Inupiaq lineage allows a unique/diverse cultural perspective of use of historical food systems ranging from Alaska to Oregon and regional tribal lands on Turtle Island. Spring serves on multiple regional and national agricultural boards and educational committees and serves as an advocate for local farmers and tribal members. Spring recevied the 2019 NASDA Women Farm to Food Award, and more recently the recepient of the 2021 Na'ahlee Tribal Fellowship. I participate in the USDA Indian Agricultural Council, Made by Native American Export Food Program, Indigenous Seed Keepers Network, Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, American Indian Housing Authority, Warm Springs Indian Tribe Community Garden, PNW Intertribal Food Soveriegnty Coalition and many other regional policy based boards and committees.
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Sam-----
Sam Schreiner is the Pepper Whisperer! Sam enjoys all things related on on-farm production, and enjoys designing many of our unique drying/cleaning systems, greenhouse and on-farm infrastructure, and growing food .We are thankful to have Sam to implement his creative foodie innovations, and keep our farm running smooth at all times. In his off time Sam enjoys fly fishing and not working.
Kirsten -----
Kirsten Landsverk moved to the high desert in the summer of 2020. Coming from a plant nursery and herbalism background, Sakari Farms feels like a natural fit, add to that a decade of running her own business in Portland, Oregon and we have a farm gal Friday! She comes excited to help grow the farm both in plants, business and community! In her off hours you can find her hosting dance parties with her dogs.
Rylie---
Rylie is not only a compassionate seed tender but, they are also a generous translator of her indigenous food traditions. She passed by the farm regularly until the wall of sunflowers in the summer caught her attention. She then did some digging to find that Sakari Farms was not only female owned but also that it was indigenous. Rylie wanted to work with in the frame of her own Once Spring made an call out to volunteers on social media it was on.
Rylie has been such an integral part of the farms blooming, we are so glad to have her along. When she isn't on the farm you can find her tending her own garden and is also the head of a beautiful flock and pack of a menagerie of animal friends. She also runs a glass business with her partner which makes beautiful glass crafts.
Rylie has been such an integral part of the farms blooming, we are so glad to have her along. When she isn't on the farm you can find her tending her own garden and is also the head of a beautiful flock and pack of a menagerie of animal friends. She also runs a glass business with her partner which makes beautiful glass crafts.
Otis-----
Otis Clifford Schreiner aka Wapato
Otis is our main Wildlife Habitat crew leader- Rockchucks, Deer, Mice you name it...he will get the job done! Otis is still working on his interpersonal relationships with our resident Porqupine after his brief encounter last summer ending in a trip to the vet. Otis enjoys napping in the sun, stretching and eating all things related to wood.
Otis is our main Wildlife Habitat crew leader- Rockchucks, Deer, Mice you name it...he will get the job done! Otis is still working on his interpersonal relationships with our resident Porqupine after his brief encounter last summer ending in a trip to the vet. Otis enjoys napping in the sun, stretching and eating all things related to wood.
