Sarah Hanson- Executive Director 

​Sarah has been working as a land steward for 25 years.  She directed trail and wilderness restoration crews for Student Conservation Association, Pacific Crest Trail Association and Washington Trails Association. She has been a WWOOFer in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Italy and Senegal, learning organic gardening techniques, and is a certified permaculture designer.  Sarah was program director for the San Juan Island Conservation Corps for 5 seasons, working with public lands agencies, local non-profits and Coast Salish tribes.  She has a B.S. in Geology/Geophysics from Western Washington University, moonlights as a healer, writer, sailor, Do It Yourself tinkerer, and has studied indigenous healing with the Q’ero tribe in the high Andes of Peru, earning an HLB certificate from the Four Winds Society.  She is learning Gaelic, the language of her ancestors, and aims to bring the bodhran and Celtic songs back to her family. 

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