Joel Serot is a 🏷️#farmer and land steward in Ojai, 📝California, focused on holistic and regenerative land management. His profile lists him as farm manager at The Farmhand Foundation, a Ventura County organization that works with local farmers to grow the resilience of the region's farms and ecosystem. His practice spans 📝permaculture land management, native plant propagation, targeted grazing, pasture care, and holistic orchard care, and he holds integrated pest management training certification.
Serot earlier worked as a non-profit event consultant and founded 📝Human Be-In, an event-programming organization in Los Angeles. He moved into agriculture through a regenerative agriculture apprenticeship at Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark in 2021, then managed agriculture systems at White Buffalo Land Trust and farm fertility and orchard systems at Ojai Mountain Farm. From 2024 to 2026 he ran the Resilient Valley Resource Cooperative, which he founded. He holds a bachelor's degree from California State University, Fullerton.
Joel joined us as a 📝Citizen of One and was a regular at 📝Symposium, the biweekly gathering I hosted in Santa Monica.