Originally from the Midwest, Seth moved to Lassen County in high school. Upon graduating, he enlisted in the Army as an Infantryman. Along the way, he married his high school sweetheart Lindsey and together they are blessed with two amazing boys Jude and Sawyer. In the Army, Seth was stationed at various locations across the globe and conducted combat operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. While attempting to figure out the next steps in life, Seth fell down a “rabbit hole” known as regenerative agriculture and hasn’t come up since. Since moving back to Lassen County, Seth has started Rustic Rancher (2016), the Susanville Community Garden (2018), and conducts meadow restoration work with Symbiotic Restoration. He holds dual B.S. degrees in Agricultural Science and Sustainability, along with certificates from OSU’s Permaculture Design Course and Archi’s Institute for Sustainable Agriculture. His passion for community service, regenerative agriculture, and education of our youth spurred him to help make LARP Co-Op a reality.

Michael grew up in Southern California where the abundance of great food was celebrated at the dinner table. After receiving his B.S. in Physics in 2009, he decided to pursue a career in craft beer. His 10 years in the beer and restaurant industry span in diverse experiences from working in the Agricultural supply chain for large international companies to brewing and managing small brewpub operations. Michael is now pursuing his other passion, Education, where he is employed as a paraeducator at Lassen Community College helping young adults practice the scientific method. Michael brings his experiences in science, education, food production, and business management to promote LARP and its goal of providing local quality food to the small diverse community of Susanville.

As a Colorado native, Andrea followed her passion for growing her own food by earning a Masters degree in Horticulture from Colorado State University with a focus on specialty crops. After volunteering with and supporting local farms, she realized that it was necessary to support and help to establish local and regenerative agriculture solutions anywhere that she lived. After landing herself in Susanville back in 2015 for a summer internship, she returned back in 2020 to work with the Bureau of Land Management and now local Resource Conservation District. Her passion for diversifying and establishing locally driven food systems, along with sharing gardening knowledge with the community, led her to join and help establish the LARP Co-Op group in the fall of 2020.

Upon developing an early interest for the land where he grew up in the heart of Appalachia, Caleb earned his B. S. In Agroecology at West Virginia University in 2014, finishing with minors in soil science, environmental microbiology, and horticulture. Researching soil health and vegetative management principles in local agricultural systems shaped his passion for understanding wise resource consumption, leading him to an early career with the US Department of Agriculture – working first as a Soils Technician monitoring pre- and post-harvest forest sites, then as a Soil Conservationist, assisting local farmers and ranchers in implementing on-farm conservation efforts. Since moving to Susanville with his family and modest market gardening/vermicomposting operation in early 2020, Caleb has led local efforts in facilitating responsible waste cycling and developing/enhancing our local food systems through his work at LARP Co-Op and at Lovestead Farms. After serving as the National Association of Conservation District’s Pacific Region Representative from 2022-2025, Caleb transitioned his focus to local food systems development in becoming LARP Cooperative’s first full-time employee in early 2025. He currently supports much of LARP’s member services development, food aggregation programming, community partnership, and agricultural education efforts in addition to directing LARP’s Urban Ag. Incubator and Composting Project.

Amy grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of California. After completing an associates in Business Administration at Bakersfield Community College, her lifelong interest in the arts led her to Los Angeles to pursue a Bachelors in Environmental Psychology and Interior Architecture. She has worked for both boutique as well as large commercial Architectural firms, gaining a wide range of experience. Adding Mechanical and Electrical disciplines over the years, she has come to focus on high efficiency designs.

In 2018 one of her close friends began the exciting endeavor of transforming her small ranch into a training ground for pack goats. A growing outdoor passion that opens up backcountry hiking opportunities to people of all backgrounds and abilities by pairing them with the amazingly agile companions. In her volunteer experiences working with so many lovable goats, Amy Learned about their care, training, dairy production, and even animal husbandry along the way.

Today, after relocating to the beautiful mountain desert scenes of susanville in 2021 she learned of LARP Co-op through the susanville community garden project, she gradually became more involved over the years by volunteering at various events, becoming a member/shareholder,  and now serving on the LARP Co-op board of Directors as of 2025.

Aubrey grew up sauntering through the poppy-covered hills of the East Bay Area, where she developed a visceral, hands-on connection to the natural world that continues to guide her work today. Drawn to the deep relationship between people and place, she earned dual Bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology and Behavioral Science from San José State University, focusing her studies on how human culture and ecology intertwine.

In 2018, Aubrey moved to Plumas County to begin a career in land conservation. She has since become an integral part of the region’s environmental community, serving as Director of Operations for Friends of Plumas Wilderness, where she helps steward the Upper Feather River Watershed.

Beyond her nonprofit work, Aubrey expresses her love of land and phenology through Scenic Root Botanic, her floral design studio based in Janesville, California. There, she grows and arranges flowers that honor place and season, celebrating the way flowers connect people to memory, meaning, and each other.

Aubrey joined the LARP Cooperative Board of Directors in the summer of 2025, bringing with her a commitment to strengthening rural economies, cultivating resilient local food systems, and fostering place-based collaboration across the Northern Sierra.