Hi! I'm Fallon, co-founder and director of EdenAcres. I also get the opportunity to engage in my true passion - teaching outdoors - as one of our Farm School instructors. Over the past 13 years I've worked in sustainability and outdoor education as well as in nonprofit leadership. I've had the joy of collaborating with organizations such as Swallowtail School & Farm, FG Community Alternative Learning Center, Roots & Shoots, FG Community School, & Centro Cultural to develop and teach youth programs. I have also designed & taught sustainability education courses at Pacific University. I have a deep passion for the natural world and for education.  

Hi! I'm Traci Jo! I grew up in a variety of
woodland and cultural landscapes from my midwestern roots along the Ohio River Valley to my southern roots in the Golden Isles and Appalachian foothills of Georgia, to the pine grasslands and wetlands of northern Florida where I received my B.S. in Environmental Horticulture at the University of Florida.
Everywhere that I've lived, I found a home in nature where there is always a sit spot somewhere in my backyard to pass countless hours outside. When I came to Oregon and first experienced old growth
Douglas fir habitat, I knew I found my heart's calling. Over the past decade, I've worked with children here in the Pacific Northwest. I received my certification in Early Childhood Education from the Eugene Waldorf Teacher Training in 2011, led all-outdoor forest kindergarten classes while living in intentional community at Tryon Life Community Farm, and found my family's home in Forest Grove where I have been teaching for the past several years. When it's time for me to play, I love to cook with seasonal and local foods, indulge in speculative science fiction, and participate in biological field surveys to protect our old growth forests!

Hello, my name is Tyler. I was born and raised here in the beautiful Pacific NorthWest.  After graduating from college I moved to Asia, where I began my teaching career. I worked in China for a year and a half before moving to Taiwan. After dedicating some time to learning Mandarin Chinese, I began teaching at Taiwan’s longest running outdoor school. I believe strongly in the value of the natural world and strive to build a similar level of enthusiasm in the youth I work with. I involve myself in a large variety of outdoor activities but I particularly enjoy backpacking. While in Taiwan I would often backpack to the incredible swimming holes and hot springs that are abundant on the island. After 8 years abroad I felt called back to the Pacific NorthWest and am excited to be part of the EdenAcres teaching team.

Mucho Gusto, I'm Eddie and some of my earliest memories of being out in nature take me back to the Sierra de los Huicholes in Zacatecas, Mexico, a peak of over 5,000 feet in elevation with the Bolaños River dividing the mountain range. As a child, I would run around these rugged terrains with family and friends exploring old growth pine-oak areas turning into dry shrubland with mesquite trees and wild oregano all around, which I would brush my hands all over on horseback traveling to herd cattle or check on corn crops. As a farmworker migrant student I did K-12 in California and went to college in Fresno, concentrating on Cultural Studies and Child Development and went through a Waldorf Teacher Training in Canada. I am a proud father and husband with two amazing children. We love nature, music, art and being together. As a Nature Immersion Lead Teacher, I am excited to share my years of experience teaching at a Waldorf school and the knowledge handed down to me by my parents and grandparents. 

My name is Ali Asman and I am so very honored and excited to be a part of this outstanding community! 

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I grew up with a strong connection to nature and the environment that has grown with me into adulthood. It feels fitting to be part of this community at a time in my life that I am also raising my two daughters to love the world around us.

I graduated from University of Portland in 2014 with a degree in Psychology and Neuroscience knowing that working in a field where I was working with children was the goal. Post-graduation, I held a number of jobs as I found my niche from years as an outdoors counselor in a camp for youth with disabilities, assisting teaching at Cedarwood Waldorf School and later Swallowtail School. During those times I gained valuable knowledge in nurturing the development of the child that was grounded and influenced by my studies of neuroscience in college. 

I grew up in center city Philadelphia surrounded by a menagerie of tropical house plants and small animals. With an elementary school science teacher and a hobby greenhouse gardener as parents, I learned early to celebrate and care for the wonderful wild world of green and growing things. I earned my BA in Philosophy and Theology, fueled by a hunger to understand human motivation. After completing my degree, I served with AmeriCorps in Buffalo, NY teaching hands-on environmental science to inner-city youth. Now, many years later, with a Master of Divinity degree, much training in conflict mediation, and a move across the country to Oregon, I am happily rooted in Beaverton, with my husband and two active young boys (ages 6 and 7). I am delighted to join EdenAcres to share my curiosity about the natural world, deep concern for local and global environmental justice, and my vision for living in harmony with all. creation.