Sam Young

Operations Manager Sam’s first encounter with Wild Abundance was in October of 2022, when she came to the area to take the Tiny House Building Workshop. For a while she’d been wanting to get a basic understanding of tool use and building structures to demystify these things she hadn’t learned growing up. When the opportunity […]

Chad Wilkes

Site Manager Chad was born & raised in Appalachia, with his ancestors coming from Scandinavia and Northern Europe. He grew up working in the trades on and off, and in his twenties he traveled to Hawaii to study permaculture and natural building. At the age of 30, he began a formal carpentry apprenticeship for 3.5 […]

Sarah Tew

Social Media & Art Director Sarah Tew recently relocated to the Asheville area after almost 20 years in New York City, where she was a professional wedding and portrait photographer, and regularly published galleries at CNET and CBS Interactive. Over her years in media she photographed everything from corporate CEO portraits to Burning Man and […]

Sophia Eng

Digital Marketing Collaborator Sophia (she/her) joined Wild Abundance in the Fall of 2023. She moved her farm from the San Francisco Bay Area — where she also led growth marketing at top Silicon Valley companies — with her family in 2022. In 2022, she took the Women’s Basic Carpentry workshop at Wild Abundance, and saw […]

Noah

Noah (he/him) is a farmer, writer, and educator that has gratefully called Western North Carolina home since 2014. At the core of all he does is an interest in relationship, both human-human and human-earth. This is why he farms: so that he can spend as much of his waking life as possible engaged in all […]