Our Team

The success of our farm, creamery, and shops are all built on one thing: teamwork. We are intensely focused on collaborating and providing training and careers to our country’s next generation of farmers and food producers. We collaborate within our own team and also with neighbors, local businesses, public entities, schools, and more.

Tamara Hicks

  • Co-owner (she/her)

    Tamara was born in rural San Diego County and spent her early childhood in Oklahoma. She received her BA in Sociology from UCSD and moved to San Francisco for graduate school, receiving her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Tamara is passionate about building healthy and vibrant communities. She was drawn to restoring the land and farm to ensure that the farm could produce healthy food for local communities and contribute to the economic and social fabric of Tomales and West Marin. She spends her free time involved with organizations she feels passionate about, including the Marin Agricultural Land Trust and Agricultural Institute of Marin.

 
David Jablons

  • Co-owner (he/him)

    David was born and raised in New York City and attended Yale University, receiving a BA in Literature. He received his MD from Albany Medical School and ventured out West when he joined the Navy. He fell in love with West Marin as it reminded him of the idyllic summers spent in Maine as a kid and he’s passionate about sharing great food. When not working at UCSF, you can often find him fixing tractors, cars, and broken pumps at the farm, slinging cheese at the Marin Farmers Market on Sundays, or making coffee at our wood-fired bagel shop in San Francisco, Daily Driver.

 
Luciola Barros

  • Herdsperson/Agritourism Lead

 

  • Farm Apprentice

    A Bay Area native and recent UC Berkeley graduate,  Kenza previously worked at Umbel Roots Farm and at Riverdog Farm's East Bay markets. Through her Moroccan background, she's developed a deep respect for land as both sustenance and heritage. In her free time, she saves seeds from Palestinian and North African food and flower crops. Her experience spans paleoethnobotany research, sound mapping, farming, and community organizing—she's excited to dig into grassland management and animal husbandry with us.

Julia Brandt

  • Farm Manager & Shepherdess (she/her)

 
Jacob Hicks

  • Facilities Manager (he/him)

    Jacob is a California native and grew up in SoCal. He can fix any car, machine, and more!

 
Rener Oscar

  • Herdsperson/Land Manager

 

  • Director of Special Projects

Nick Campbell

  • Head Cheesemaker (he/him)

    Nick grew up in the South Bay and studied Spanish and Political Science at UC Davis. Originally on the path to become a diplomat, he shifted to chef work and winemaking after graduation, finally finding his way to an apprenticeship at Toluma Farms at the end of 2020. He has been head cheesemaker since fall of 2022. Becoming part of the creamery team has been an amazing opportunity to reconnect to his family’s dairying roots in Montenegro and live in one of the most beautiful places in California. He's a passionate home cook, spinner, avid gardener and seed saver.

 

  • Bookkeeper (she/her)

    After over 40 years of living in San Diego, Cindy sold her 7-11 and home that she had built and relocated to Santa Rosa. When not helping with our books, she is taking road trips in her RV or 1957 Ford Thunderbird.

 
Miranda Sanborn

  • Creamery Apprentice

    Miranda volunteered with us in winter 2019–2020, helping with milking, feeding, cleaning, and lambing season. A Bay Area native, who went on to attend college at Bard, majoring in Environmental & Urban studies as well as Photography. She also spent time studying Environmental Sciences in Scotland. Before coming back to Toluma Farms, she  was working for Solano Land Trust. We're so glad to have her back—this time in the creamery.

 
 

Farmers’ Market Mongers

Jacob Skylar (SF, Ferry Building) • Erika Arnold (Oakland, Grand Lake) • Sam Bramer (SF, Clement) • Brenna Collins (Marin, Civic Center) • Megan Stahl (Marin, Larkspur)