Zach and Hailey are the founders of Ananda Farms Camano Island. They have been super active in the local Farmers Markets and community events.
Show Notes
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Key Points of Interest:
- Where does Zach and Hailey hail from?
- Hear what Zach’s career background, and it’s not what you think
- What caused Zach to shift from his past career
- What is Hailey’s educational background, and how does it tie in to what she does now?
- How did she get introduced to Yoga?
- Find out how Zach’s question, "What is Real?”, influenced his path
- Zach and Hailey moved from the city to take on new positions, which connect them to nature
- After working with this place for a couple years, they began traveling and helping out family
- After finding themselves in this, they wanted to merge the worlds and nature and farming
- Here about the meeting of a very influential person for them, whom showed them farming
- How were Zach and Hailey first introduced to organic farming, and how did that influence them
- Where did the idea of Ananda Farms come from?
- What lead Zach down the path of Yoga?
- Where does the name Ananda come from?
- Where was the first Ananda Community start?
- How does Zach and Hailey see Ananda Farms fit into this community?
- How did Ananda Farms get started financially?
- Hear about the Ananda Farms first year in operation
- Find out one of Zach’s favorite things to do 🙂
- How did the time in nature show them how to farm
- “Investors” helped Ananda Farms, not for financial gain, but for investing in the future
- Why did Ananda Farms begin to start making their amazing products?
- What types of events does Ananda Farms have going on?
- How many people showed up to their Lavender Festival?
- They also have lots of other events!
- What new programs are they working on for the future?
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