Moringa Farmers
Some of Our
Local Champions of Moringa
See our gallery of the great farmers and individuals across California growing moringa and developing creative moringa products.
Mariko Gifford
Mariko is the Founder for Moringa for Life and an experienced moringa grower in Southern California. She offers in depth training and certifications in moringa cultivation and has trained several growers in the state and across the globe. You can learn more about her work from her YouTube video. For more info on Mariko Gifford check out https://moringaforlife.com/
Christen Brown
Christen is located in the Bay Area and hosts an information platform that educates the public on the evolution of sickle cell anemia, food sovereignty using community, art, entrepreneurship and innovative agriculture. Learn more about Christen at Creation of Society.
James Brady
James is the founder of Con10u2Farms, a low profit social enterprise working to educate the most vulnerable citizens about healthy eating habits. The firm specializes in recirculating water gardening systems such as hydroponics, aquaponics and adaptive growing modules. You can read more about James Brady in Kuli Kuli’s recent blog.
Keith Hudson
Keith is working to develop a virtual community and encourage home gardening by providing a platform for sharing ideas and tips with other home gardeners as well as a library of training videos. Learn more about Keith and Grocery Croppers, LLC here. You can also get his Grow Guide here.
Effie Gant
Highways and Hedges Community Outreach, Grow Green, Grow Healthy, Grow Safe
Effie is an active member and leader in the South Sacramento area. She runs a non-profit organization aimed at increasing urban farms and access to nutritious foods so that healthy neighborhoods can grow and thrive. She cultivates moringa among many other vegetables, fruit trees, succulents, and more.
Ron Cooper
Rosie’s Ranch
Ron is located in southern California and is applying for New and Beginning farmer grans from state and federal agenices. He and his team plan to grow industrial hemp and moringa alongside intensive and integrative training with US Veterans.
Edye Kuyper & Brian Boyce
CommuniCare Health Centers is a Federally Qualified Health Center providing health care to those in need since 1972. The Woodland facilty has an inteactive garden run by Edye Kuyper and Brian Boyce.
Kaying Moua
Kaying has been farming in the Central Valley for 10 years. She has been involved in 2 previous CDFA grants and leads the local moringa cooperative within the Hmong community. She sells moringa fruits, leaves, leaf powder, and moringa pollinated honey.
Kala Washington
SugarLoaf Farms
Kala owned and operated a farm in Marysville, CA. He was a self-taught moringa farmer for this region in California. Kala cultivated other nutritious vegetables and played a vital role in the local community, Kala passed away in 2021 but his legacy, mission and inspriation live on.
Tony Lopez
Jett Harvest Inc
Tony is an independant moringa farmer in Imperial Valley, CA and works in the agriculture industry with Jett Harvest Inc. He has been growing, learning, and experimenting with moringa for over 5 years. He has a variety of moringa trees of various sizes, vegetative and fruiting stages. He is also a supplier of fresh moringa leaves and dried leaf powder, flowers, cuttings, and seedlings. Check out his educational and instructional moringa videos on YouTube in Spanish!!!
