The Growers

Combining a passion for sustainable agriculture and sustaining communities, Jasper and William Forrester are dedicated to responsible stewardship of the land and the highest respect for living systems.

Jasper has been the main farmer here at GreenMan Farm since 1997. Her formal education includes degrees in Business Administration and Environmental Horticulture. She is a frequent speaker and contributor to local publications on the subject of sustainable agriculture. Jasper's community affiliations are numerous: she is a member of Washington
Tilth Producers and Seattle Tilth, and she is Secretary & Treasurer of the Vashon-Maury Grange and President of the Vashon Island Growers Association 1999-2005.

Will is an accomplished painter and muralist whose most recent project is a mural of grand proportions commissioned to commemorate 100 years of commerce, industry, and agriculture on Vashon Island. (See it here.)

Jasper and Will were married here on Vashon in April 2005. In the last eight years, Will has exhuberantly taken to the deeply satisfying pleasure of the simple farm life. He has become a passionate advocate for sustainability as well, and an invaluable partner on the farm.