Willow Summer grew up in West Sonoma County, where she began farming in high school on a small organic farm, learning the ropes of production market farming. From 2000-2016 Willow was a leader in the urban farming movement in the East Bay, as founder of City Slicker Farms and The Berkeley Basket, and Farm Manager at Urban Adamah Farm, contributing to building food security and guiding farm apprentices and interns in the art of urban farming, ecological stewardship and community building. Since 2008, Willow has pursued an Anthroposophical path, receiving a teaching credential in Waldorf education from the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training in 2011, completing her biodynamic farming training with Harald Hoven in Fair Oaks in 2012, completing a curative education course for special needs students with Robyn Brown in 2019, and completed a three-year training in anthroposophic psychology in 2025. Currently, Willow and her husband Lew are founding farmers and educators at Three Springs Community Farm, an educational farm providing farm memberships (CSA), farm apprenticeships and school group visits on an 80 acre ranch near Bodega, California. Her how-to book "The Essential Urban Farmer," co-authored by Novella Carpenter, was published by Penguin Press in 2011, and the garden teaching guide, "Growing Sustainable Children," was co-authored with Ronni Sands in 2017 (SteinerBooks).
