Your veggies are grown by a small team of hard-working farmers, with occasional help from neighborhood volunteers. Meet the team:
Cam Terry
founding farmer
I moved from Denver to Virginia in the fall of 2017 with the dream of starting an urban farming business. My formal education is in video production, and my career to this point had been spent in film projection booths, behind various cameras and in sales of fine ethnic art. But after making a film about an inspirational farmer, vegetable gardening captivated my attention and took most of my free time for several summers.
I believe there is nothing more important than knowing where my food came from and how it was made, so GVH was launched with the goals of bringing food sovereignty back to my local community and reducing the miles traveled from field to table. Growing nutritious food for our community is the most rewarding career I can imagine.
With the birth of Kora Lane, I recently became a father. So now I grow a lot of plants, and I get to grow a little human, too.
Chloe Johnson
market maestro
Chloe leads all things creative, attractive and refreshing for GVH. From custom tie-dye t-shirts, to event marketing, to okra ornaments, her clever vision sprouts up in everything we do. Most often you’ll see her behind a table and scale under a farmers market tent in Grandin or the West End. Under the brand Tea Total, she serves craft mocktails including farm ingredients in our market booth. Her youth education background serves our farm well with every class of young interns, as she helps them to develop professional skills and craft their resumes.
Chloe grew up in rural southwest England before coming to the United States as a teen. Her farming journey started along with Cam when they moved to Roanoke to start GVH; she never fancied herself a farmer but she’s always been a lover of the outdoors and willing to get her hands dirty. In her free time she enjoys writing, playing card and board games, trips to the ocean, and drinking tea. Her latest great endeavor is being a mother to Kora Lane: our tomato-devouring farm baby.
Katie Struble
farmhand lead
1 part tidewater, 2 parts mountain valley, with a healthy sprinkling of vagabond spirit, mixed with a deeply rooted appreciation for Southwestern Virginia. In 1991, I moved to Tidewater Virginia with my family, as “home is where the Navy sends you”. My father’s dream was to retire from the Navy and settle in SW Virginia. I now embrace Southwest Virginia as my home, having graduated from JMU and after spending several years out West in Oregon (AmeriCorps) and in Colorado (Pathways in Education). Upon returning to Roanoke, I managed the Mobile Market for LEAP, introducing me to our diverse residents and farmers.
Since 2022, I started working at GVH, first as a horticulture intern, and now as staff. In addition to urban farming, I serve on the leadership team of The Harvest Collective and as a Take Root student instructor, a community based program for high school students in Roanoke. As well as the obvious perks of working with plants, one of the most illuminating gifts I have received through this work is the ever-expanding community. With each passing season I am afforded the opportunity to grow with my community and teach ways of sustaining ourselves. There is no higher form of compensation than seeing a community of people growing together in food sovereignty.
Aaron Terry
farmhand
Aaron is originally from Colorado, but has fallen in love with life in southwest Virginia. He was happily surprised by the region’s vibrant outdoors and local food scene, and tries his best to get involved in both as much as possible. An electrician by trade, when Aaron is not outside slack lining, farming, meditating, playing basketball, or camping, he’s almost certainly listening to dance music (House, Trance, Dubstep) or attending a music festival or concert
Mom & Dad
volunteer harvest specialists
When they aren’t fawning over their new granddaughter Kora, Mom and Dad come to the farm to help with planting, harvesting, washing and packing vegetables for our markets.