A working farm in the Snoqualmie Valley.
Wild Roots is a 53-acre property near Duvall in the Snoqualmie Valley. Since acquiring the farm in August 2025, the team has grown vegetables and flowers, managed livestock, carried out farm maintenance and infrastructure work, and tested ways to connect people with local agriculture. This practical first year now informs a more focused plan to support independent farm businesses.
The farm at a glance
- 53 acresnear Duvall, in the Snoqualmie Valley
- ~35 acresof pasture
- Vegetables & flowersgrown on the farm
- Cattlegrazing and pasture management
- Ducks, goats & a pigplus two cats and a hive of bees
- Greenhouse & cold storageon-site infrastructure
The team leading Wild Roots.
Kappie Ayers
Executive Director, Wild Roots
Leadership, operations, and the farm’s next chapter
Kappie Ayers is the Executive Director of Wild Roots, responsible for the farm’s development, its day-to-day operations, and the work of turning its emerging vision into a functioning model. She brings more than 15 years of experience managing properties and operations for a family office, along with six years of office administration, bookkeeping, and operational coordination for a local landscaping company.
Since the farm was acquired in August 2025, Kappie has coordinated its agricultural activities, infrastructure projects, and livestock care, and has led its early farm initiatives. As Wild Roots enters its next chapter, she is deepening her agricultural and farm-business expertise to support independent growers and help build farm businesses that last.
Joe Ayers
Operations Manager, Wild Roots
Livestock, equipment, infrastructure, and field operations
Joe Ayers is the Operations Manager of Wild Roots, overseeing the work that keeps the farm running on the ground. Joe’s responsibilities include livestock care, tractor and equipment operation and maintenance, property maintenance, fencing, and field preparation.
Joe also manages the farm’s infrastructure projects and seasonal operations in the Snoqualmie Valley, from spring field work to readying animals and equipment for high water — the practical foundation the next chapter at Wild Roots will build on.
Where things stand.
What we are doing today, what we are still testing, and what is only a plan so far.
- doing now
- Growing vegetables and flowers
- Caring for livestock
- Maintaining and improving farm infrastructure
- testing
- Ways to connect people with local agriculture
- planning
- A small group of independent farm businesses on the property
- Shared infrastructure for participating farmers
- Formal farm-business education for our own team
Where we are headed.
Read the emerging vision, or start with the story of our first year.