Heather Kouros is the Farm Manager and Peer Support Specialist at Jubilee Farms. She is thrilled to be combining her passion for holistic systems of mental health care with over three years of experience with regenerative agriculture. Heather stumbled into farming when her volunteer position at a local farm received the funding to launch a CSA program in 2021. Before coming to Jubilee, Heather served as the Volunteer Coordinator, CSA lead, Intern director, and Lead Farmer at her former farm, Spring Forest. She is deeply invested in creating sustainable systems for farming and living. Heather studied herbalism at Sacred Journeys School of Herbalism in Austin, Texas in 2016 and is informed by the healing, complexity, and wisdom available when actively being in a relationship with the natural world.

Heather’s road to recovery from trauma and mental illness was a long one, and she leads with the gifts of her experience. She seeks to bring empathy, open-mindedness, curiosity, and humor to others and is constantly learning from those who are healing and need healing. Heather has also spent a significant amount of time caring for children and adults with special needs and is constantly humbled by the profundity of the human experience.

Heather spends her time outside Jubilee swimming in rivers, hanging out with animals, dancing, working on creative projects, and taking lots of naps!