Our family moved to Thailand with a vision of building something lasting — a place where land, family, and purpose come together in a way that future generations can understand and continue. The top photo is the nicest Monk from Lancaster California Temple. We donated many pieces of furniture.
For most of my life, I worked in youth services, County of Los Angeles California, spending more than thirty years working with young people and families. That experience taught me something powerful: the environments we grow up in shape who we become. Discipline, responsibility, resilience, and curiosity don’t appear by accident — they grow in the right conditions.
Just like a healthy tree.
Over time, that realization began to shape a deeper question for our family:
With the on going National Crisis I made a choice to abandon California to build an environment where our children could grow surrounded by nature, purpose, and meaningful work?
That question eventually led us to Thailand.
The mountains, the climate, the fertile soil, and the culture of agriculture created the perfect place to begin building something we had long imagined — a regenerative family farm that could produce food, knowledge, and opportunity for decades to come.
But ChezFarms was never meant to be just a farm.
It is a long-term family project.
A place where our daughters can learn how ecosystems work, how food is grown, and how thoughtful stewardship of the land can support both people and nature. We want them to grow up understanding that real wealth is not just money — it is healthy soil, clean water, strong communities, and the ability to provide for others.
Our approach to farming is regenerative. That means we focus on building living soil, encouraging biodiversity, and designing systems that improve the land over time rather than exhausting it.
Instead of forcing nature to produce, we try to cooperate with it.
At ChezFarms, fruit trees, herbs, natural oils, and traditional plant knowledge all play a role in building a diverse and resilient ecosystem. Over time these ingredients will become the foundation for natural products made directly from the farm.
But the most important harvest at ChezFarms is not soap, cacao, or fruit.
It’s the experience.
Every season teaches us something new. Every tree planted is part of a longer story. And every step forward brings our daughters closer to understanding that building something meaningful takes patience, care, and imagination.
In many ways, ChezFarms is still just beginning.
Today it is raw land slowly becoming a living ecosystem.
In the years ahead it will become an orchard, a classroom, a gathering place, and hopefully an example of what families can build when they choose to work with nature rather than against it.
For our daughters, ChezFarms will always be home.
For those following our journey, we hope it becomes something else too — a reminder that it’s never too late to plant the first tree of a long and meaningful future.
Welcome to ChezFarms.
