About the Farm
Our relationship with earth is our foundation and guiding principle
Brackenshire Farm is a small-scale flower and vegetable farm located in rural Whatcom county.
Our goal is to provide unique and high-quality fresh and dried flowers, nutritious vegetables, and other plant based and value-added products to our local community while stewarding the land we work on and the ecosystems that surround and support us.
The farm was started in 2023 by Rhiannon Le Fay and Alexander Harris after a decade of dreaming and scheming. We love what we do - being outside, doing work that is challenging and tangible, living and working in harmony with nature, providing food and flower beauty to our customers, and learning so much every day.
Selling produce and flowers to our community gives us a chance to share this joy, healthy food, and plant power with a wonderful community that graciously supports local food, hard work, and caring for the natural world. We are so grateful to our customers and the wider farming community for supporting our work and our journey towards imparting a small but positive impact towards our agricultural network and our earth.
Our Practices
We are always in a two way relationship with the natural world.
Choosing to make a life out of honoring that relationship can go in many directions. Farming sustainably is one of the biggest ways, though far from the only way, we at Brackenshire Farm choose to do that in our own lives. Farming can be one of the most environmentally destructive activities humans do but it doesn't have to be. As a community we can choose methods that restore, heal, and care for the land we work and choose methods that meet our needs without treating agriculture like an extractive industry. We will never eliminate our impact on this earth, but we can greatly reduce it and we can give back to the land we have a relationship with.
As your farmers, we choose to take this path everywhere we can. As our systems develop and as our capacity to reinvest back into our work expands, we are committed to choosing methods, equipment, inputs, and practices that impart respect and reciprocity for the land we farm, the people we work with, and the wider ecosystems we are a part of.
Meet the Farmers
Rhiannon Le Fay
I was brought up with a strong sense of wonder and respect for the natural world and that part of me has only rooted deeper as I've grown older. My botanical career started in vegetable farming and over time, with schooling but mostly hands-on work, my experience grew to include flower farming, medicinal herb cultivation, plant nursery work, and native plant botany and restoration.
Plants teach me about presence, gratitude, and the impermanent but resilient nature of joy and beauty in this world. Working with plants is also my favorite way to be creative - whether I'm sowing seeds or putting together an elaborate flower arrangement, I'm collaborating with nature to create something intentional but also outside of my control, which is exhilarating and fulfilling (and scary!).
When I'm not farming, I'm usually hiking in the mountains, swimming in the Salish Sea, sharing farm food with my wonderful community, working my off-farm jobs, or resting during the off-season.
Alex Harris
I'm a farmer and natural resources professional working to conserve and restore farmland and forestland in Whatcom County. I split my time between working on the farm and serving as the Outreach Coordinator for the County’s Conservation Easement Program. I believe that promoting the long-term stewardship of our working lands is one of the most meaningful ways we can support the future of farming, strengthen rural communities, and build resilience in the face of climate change.
I love the work I do because it allows me to collaborate directly with fellow farmers and small forest landowners—people who care deeply for their land and want to see it thrive for generations to come.
In my free time, I enjoy getting out into the beautiful mountains that surround us, playing music with other local residents, and gathering around a shared meal in gratitude and community with friends.
Pippin
Pippin is a loyal friend, expert fetcher, and full-time good boy based in Whatcom County. A sleek and speedy black lab with a heart as big as a barn, Pippin takes his self-appointed roles very seriously: chief morale booster and emotional support goofball to his beloved humans, Alex and Rhiannon.
Pippin’s core passions include playing fetch with Olympic-level commitment, diving into any body of water with reckless joy (lakes, rivers, mud puddles… you name it), and supervising farm chores with the kind of enthusiasm that suggests he thinks he’s running the whole operation. He believes every stick is a treasure, every puddle is a spa day, and every visitor is a potential best friend.
Whether he's charging through the woods, snoring loudly in the living room, or joyfully greeting guests like he hasn’t seen them in years, Pippin brings laughter, love, and a whole lot of muddy paw prints to the lives of everyone around him.
