The Farmer

Caiti Hachmyer is a farmer, educator, activist and public academic. She founded Red H Farm in 2009.

Caiti has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Conservation Resource Studies from UC Berkeley and a graduate degree in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.

In addition to building an agroecological farm landscape, she is the director of Celebrating Women's Leadership in Food, a contract researcher and writer, an educator with Agroecology Commons, a facilitator with Climate Farm School and adjunct faculty (teaching Agroecology) at Sonoma State University. She is currently in the process of launching the forthcoming Center for Just + Resilient Food Systems at SSU. In 2021 she was awarded Farm Advocate of the Year at the CA Small Farms Conference for her work supporting women in food. Caiti has been acknowledged by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and by American Farmland Trust for her leadership in agroecological farming.

She is a published writer, having contributed chapters to two separate books – “Notes from a New Farmer: Rent Culture, Insecurity and the Need for Change,” in Land Justice: Re-imagining Food, Land and the Commons in the United States(Food First Books) and “The Role of Land Rights in Social Transformation: Stories from Boston and Philadelphia” in Public Policies for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements and the State (Routledge). She has published multiple essays in Civil Eats on the lived experience of climate change at Red H Farm and lessons learned after nearly 20 years of farming.