Our family farm
Rooted in patience. Grown in community.
We are Kree and Daniel. Together with our two children, we are building Bamboo Valley Farm to grow good food, care for the land, and share the flavors we know with the community around us.
How we began
A farm made possible together.
Bamboo Valley Farm began through Karen Community Farm, a nonprofit farm incubator that helps refugee resettlers start agricultural businesses of their own. Access to land, shared infrastructure, and business mentorship made it possible for our family to begin farming without carrying the full financial risk alone.
We are proud to grow within that community. Our fields hold seasonal produce with a special focus on Asian vegetables, and every harvest reflects the care, knowledge, and support that helped us put down roots here.
Our name
The roots were growing all along.
There is a story about a farmer who planted Chinese bamboo and cared for it faithfully. He watered the ground through the first year, then the second, third, and fourth, but nothing appeared above the soil. Friends and neighbors told him to stop wasting his time. Still, he kept tending the place where he had planted it.
In the fifth year, a shoot finally emerged. Then the bamboo climbed toward the sky in only a matter of weeks. Its sudden growth was possible because those quiet years had not been empty. Beneath the surface, the plant had been building the roots strong enough to hold everything that came next.
Bamboo is personal to both of us, too. We remember growing up in a bamboo house, running through bamboo forests, and gathering bamboo shoots to eat. Those memories connect our childhoods to the life we are making for our own children.
We chose the name Bamboo Valley Farm for that heritage and for the lesson the story carries: worthwhile work can take patience, perseverance, and faith long before anyone else can see the result. What looks like waiting may be the time when the deepest roots are forming.
Our philosophy and practices
Healthy soil supports everything above it.
We practice regenerative agriculture with the goal of restoring soil health, encouraging biodiversity, and working with the surrounding ecosystem instead of against it. We want the land to become more resilient as we grow on it.
Our work is hands-on. We farm without a tractor and avoid tilling and heavy machinery, protecting the living structure beneath our feet so healthy soil can support healthy plants and nutrient-dense food.
We follow organic practices and do not use synthetic chemical sprays or genetically modified organisms. We are not certified organic, so we say exactly what we do rather than claiming a certification we do not hold. The aim is simple: care for the soil, pollinators, people, and wider ecosystem that make every harvest possible.