Patrick Scott

Pat hails from the city of Troy, NY where he learned to love the seasons and the snow. After 10 years in Los Angeles he is proud to be ‘home’ and putting down roots on the East Coast again.

While in LA, Pat received a certificate in Permaculture from Oregon State University and founded Opulent Earth, a small business that designed and created sustainable landscapes: replacing lawns, parking lots and overgrown spaces with native plants and habitat.

Inspired to steward more land and to prove that agriculture can benefit soil and native ecology, Pat and Soham launched Farm on the Fen in 2022 right here in Florida, NY.

Now, drawing upon his background as a martial arts instructor, he is thrilled to be offering courses for young people to learn self-defense, land stewardship skills, and meditation through the new Garden Warriors program.

Soham Dhesi

Soham (So-hum) comes to the Farm life through a deep love for food, her curiosity for interesting flavors, and a passion for sustainability and communal resilience.

Born and raised in Bangalore, India, and having studied architecture and urban planning in California, she aspired to a warm, weathered city life with 0 dogs. Surprising everyone, especially herself, she is learning to embrace the mostly chilly, rural “upstate” NY life, dirty farm dogs very much included.

Pickle

Chief officer of herd management, guest-greeting enthusiast.

Pickle’s official job is to herd our chickens, but as a Border Collie sees himself as manager of all living things here at the farm.

Mostly he nips at Kimchi to correct any perceived mistakes and shortcomings.

Kimchi

Undersecretary of napping and yapping.
“You lose every fight you don’t start.”

Kimchi’s official job is to guard the chickens. He has an unblemished record, never having lost a single chicken since the day he arrived here as a puppy. We aren’t actually sure how he comes by this unblemished record, because as far as we can tell he has mostly been asleep this whole time.

He has chased off at least one bear, but he is a lover and a cuddler: be prepared he will try to sit on you and sniff inappropriately.

Unless you are Pickle, in which case he prefers wrestling.