Lauren is co-owner and full time farmer and host at Humble Heart. Lauren is a life long educator and founded and directed The Bija Project, a socially conscious art, play and nature focused preschool in Brooklyn, NY before moving to Vermont in 2021. Lauren is a from scratch cook, nutrient dense food educator and lover of delicious, nutritious food and hosting a great dinner party. She is passionate about animal welfare, chemical free farming and working for social and environmental justice. Lauren oversees Humble Heart’s educational programming, will cook your breakfast during your farm stay and believes that hospitality is an essential part of the Humble Heart experience.

Jon is co-owner of Humble Heart Homestead. He oversees infrastructure needs of the farm and participates in the day to day operations. Before moving to Vermont, Jon founded Peoples Bicycle and co-founded Zero to Go - a compost pickup program, both in Beacon, NY. He is passionate about compost, nutrient dense food, spending time outdoors, mountain biking and helping Humble Heart become a thriving and diverse food forest.

Jayne is an artist, caregiver, and environmental educator. She’s worked at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, NJ and currently at Poker Hill Arts in Underhill, VT. She’s also worked with adults as a kayak guide - teaching wetland ecology, conservation, birds, and natural history. Jayne spends a lot of time in the woods, with her Vizsla-mix dog, Moses, running, skiing, gravel-biking, and always birding! She says, “I look forward to my time at Humble Heart because I feel honored to spend it in such a wholesome, healthy, and calming place. I feel aligned with Lauren’s creative vision of the homestead and her mission to be low-waste, regenerative, sustainable, and ecologically diverse. The planning of this place has been done with such mindfulness– and that’s the theme I feel when I’m there.”

Our flock of heritage breed ducks will greet you upon arrival with their sweet and social quacks! In addition to their adorable antics, the ducks are great foragers, helping us keep our ecosystem balanced and their manure feeds our soil with the beautiful compost it helps us create.

You’ll wake to the crow of Otis, our rooster, who gently watches over our heritage breed hens. Our beautiful eggs come from these pasture raised, rotationally grazed birds who fertilize our soil, hunt for ticks and grubs, and are always happily waiting for a handful of sunflower seeds!

A colony of Rex rabbits are the newest members of the homestead. These beautiful and docile beings provide “bunny gold” adding incredible fertility to our soil and are a sustainable source of meat and fur. Our rabbits live in social groups called colonies where they have the dignity of expressing their natural instincts like burrowing, grooming each other, and choosing when to breed.