Defined by old growth forest, abundant rivers, streams and surrounding ocean within the Emerald Coast of the Pacific Northwestern tip of Washington State encompassing the Olympic National Forest.
This bioregion is dynamically shifting with positive influence from new perspectives and adaptability to changes.
Shaelee Evans
Forest Farmer Shae has 20+ years experience tending food and herb guilds on the Olympic Peninsula, building Goodness Tea around listening to the land and the pulse of farmers markets. Shaelee tends thier farm in Jamestown S’Klallam territory near the Dungeness River, stewarded for Home, Local Food System Support and Cooperative Development. Find them at street markets, dances and on the trail.
Asha (Ashley) Bawden
Asha is the founder of BanyanTri and has been developing collaborative projects since 2008. She has maintained an eco-tourism permaculture tiny-farm since 2019 on her family’s property of a former orchard in Port Angeles, WA. As a recent MBA graduate in Sustainability, she developed a workforce housing concept, Angeles Evergreen, with hopes to positively impact this bioregion in support of maintaining land stewardship and local agriculture.
April Bartlett
April Bartlett is a Grant Consultant and Bioregional Organizer. She grew up barefoot, curious, and in nature. This early kinship with the natural world set her on a path as a strategist, grant specialist, and narrative architect working across Cascadia’s emerging bioregional landscape.
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