Our Story

Heather grew up playing on the farm, exploring the land and learning how to be a good steward and farmer from the time she could walk. Weekly walks in the forest identifying trees, plants, and animals with her father instilled a deep love for the earth and all its creatures! She enjoys making functional earthenware in her home pottery studio. Heather has a degree in horticulture, has studied herbal medicine at Heartstone Center for Earth Essentials, and had spent years working for an local Organic seed company, Fruition Seeds along with managing Sunshine Hollow.​

Mitch grew up in the same community and spent his childhood in the forest hunting and fishing. He has a deep love for harvesting from the land around him including deer, fish, fungi, and native edible plants. Mitch enjoys wood working projects and landscaping. He worked hard in his parents gardens and at his family's Christmas tree farm through out his life and has always enjoyed working the land! He is skilled in running equipment and is the heart and soul of Sunshine Hollow when he isn't working hard for the Department of Environmental Conservation!

Together they enjoy foraging, hiking, cooking with friends, playing with their pups Kova and Percy, and growing beautiful vegetables, flowers, chickens, sheep and herbs to fill the stomachs hearts of their community and beyond.

You can find sunshine Hollow Set up at the Naples Valley Farmers Market, the Geneva Farmers Market and the Point of the Bluff Farmers Market.

The Future of Sunshine Hollow

We see such a bright future for our farm. At the moment we share the farm with my father as he runs Finger Lakes Aquaculture and stocks ponds with game fish. He also has an impressive hay operation that he manages all himself. As we grow as farmers, humans, and community members I see us leaning into growing and preparing herbal products, growing our beautiful Icelandic sheep flock, and growing many perennial flowers and dahlias. I would love to count on naturally died yarn, grass fed lamb and sheep pelts as a large part of our income. Growing our apiary is also a huge dream for us and mostly a passion of Mitchell’s. I would love to host gatherings to commune with the land and our farm and continue to connect with our local community on deeper levels. Sharing flowers is an easy way to open up conversation and communication and we will continue to use them to make new friends and relationships.