Relational Agriculture

Organically Raised Meats

No-Till Market Garden

Diverse Silvopasture

Trust your farmer, trust your food.

We believe the best food comes from people who care.

We farm because we truly, deeply love it.

You’ll find us at RAD Farmers Market and Black Mountain Tailgate Market.

Over 40% of our foods are distributed for FREE through our food access partners.

keep scrolling to meet us and learn more!

Diverse Farm Foods

Organic-fed Pastured Chicken

Our chickens actually enjoy a free range life in lush pastures- they are not confined in pens or raised on bare ground.

They are moved daily through our tree plantings following our flock of sheep. This regular movement evenly fertilizes the pastures- improving plant growth, soil health, and animal wellbeing.

For their whole lives, they only eat what they find in the pasture and 100% certified organic feed.

It is truly the best chicken we have ever eaten- we can’t wait for you to try them, too!

Organic-fed Forest-Raised Pork

Our heritage pigs get to be pigs- they root, play, and mud bathe. They are rotated through the forest regularly to ensure optimum habitat for them and optimum health of the land.

In addition to rooting for grubs, nuts, and roots, our pigs are fed 100% certified organic feed plus scraps from our veggie gardens.

Our pork is juicy, tender, fatty, and delicious!

Pork will be available again at farmers markets soon.

No-Till Vegetables

Our veggies are vibrant, alive, and grown by people who love what they do.

We have transformed 1/2 acre of pasture into diverse vegetable gardens. We use only hand tools in our garden (never tilling) and organic methods.

Join our Autumn for beautifully curated weekly boxes of farm fresh produce.

Organic-fed Pastured Turkey

Turkey you can feel proud to feed your family on a special occasion- plump, juicy, flavorful, and treated with care and respect.

Just like our chickens, our turkeys rotate through our silvopasture plantings and are moved regularly by hand. They are fed 100% organic feed to supplement their foraging.

Pre-orders open soon for holiday turkeys.

Perennial Fruits + Nuts

In 2023, we planted hundreds of fruit and nut trees and shrubs across the landscape and are waiting patiently for that first harvest. U-pick opportunities will open as fruits begin to mature.

Beyond providing food for humans, these plants will offer shade to our pasture animals, produce fiber products, create habitat for wildlife, and enhance the beauty of the farm.

Species include:

American Persimmon, Asian Persimmon, Asian Pear, Apple, Mulberry, Paw Paw, Blueberry, Hazelnut, Chinese Chestnut, Pecan, Black Walnut, English Walnut, Shagbark Hickory, Butternut

Meet the Farmers

Lyric and Noah founded Wild East Farm in 2022 on their shared values and their love for one another. Since then, the farm has grown to support five full time farmers.

The team is deeply fulfilled by working and growing alongside each other. Their creative lives are endlessly energized by this shared place and they can regularly be found drawing, taking photos, writing poetry, singing songs, and dancing through the pastures. And of course working very hard and sweating a lot!

Noah is a farmer, writer, and educator that has gratefully called Western North Carolina home for the last ten years. At the core of all he does is an interest in relationship, both human-human and human-earth. This is why he farms: so that he can spend as much of his waking life as possible engaged in all forms of deep relationship with his community.

Noah has worked as a field biologist, forestry technician, arborist, land design consultant, and farm manager.  He has a permaculture design certification and is a certified ecological monitor through the Savory Institute. His farming philosophy is grounded in a strong understanding of ecological patterns and a passion for effective small farms that revitalize rural communities and economies. With his diverse background and wide knowledge base, Noah's role at Wild East Farm is to facilitate a thriving farm ecosystem and educational space in which the community can become immersed native ecology, soils, animal physiology, and viable farm production systems. He joyfully offers a variety of land consulting, learn more here.

Noah brings levity through even the most monotonous work through his relentless humor and bright spirit. He looks forward to a lifetime living alongside and learning from the agrarian community of this place.

Noah East co-founder & operations conductor

Raised by the lakes, dunes, and forests of northern Michigan, Lyric is a life-long “I want to be outside” person. She farms because it seamlessly melds her ecological curiosity, spiritual relationship with the Earth, and love of storied food into a joyful and meaningful lifestyle.

Lyric is uncompromising in her dedication to integrity food. In living this value, she strives to be directly involved with the source of all her food through relationship, hard honest work, and generosity. She can regularly be found foraging, canning, drying, and exploring new recipes and nuances of preserving seasonal harvests. An artist in many mediums, she seeks to bring creativity, beauty, and enthusiasm to all she does.

She has been involved in local food and education systems in WNC for over a decade as a grower, children’s educator and non-profit manager. She recently departed her role as the director of the River Arts District Farmers Market, where for three years she delighted the weekly ritual of gathering community around food, to be full time on the farm. She continues to enjoy the market as a weekly vendor.

Lyric East co-founder & creative director

After growing up in Durham, Zak has returned to North Carolina following 15 years of living, schooling and farming all across the United States.

Zak found agriculture through his study of social change theory and philosophy at Kenyon College where he graduated with distinction in both Philosophy and Political Science. Working as a community organizer throughout college, Zak had for his foundational teachings the work of influential leaders from Fannie Lou Hamer to Murray Bookchin. These and other teachers expressed common threads in community self reliance through connection and entanglement by means of cultural, economic and food production. After volunteering at the Kenyon Farm, Zak was ready to immerse in an intensive 2 year agricultural apprenticeship orchestrated by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA).

Zak has spent the last 8 years farming in all the major bioregions of the country (Maine, Alaska, New Mexico, South Carolina). This experience at different scales in addition to climates informs his role of vegetable manager at Wild East Farm. He arrived at Wild East through keeping relationship with Noah after meeting briefly at a sustainable agriculture conference several years ago.

Zak is determined to realize visions of sustainable rural communities that center food, art, and relationship. His arrival to Wild East is kismet and has strengthened the sense of purpose, inspiration, and love here on the farm.

Zak Young garden manager & head tinkerer

Drew was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, but spent the majority of his adult life in the mountains of Western NC which he calls home. Though his degree is in political science, there has always been a pull towards farming and agriculture (just like Zak!) He has vast experience in food service working in restaurants, delis, and grocery stores - each step taking him closer to the front end of his food production. 

Drew recently spent a year apprenticing as a cheesemaker on a working dairy farm and became integrated into a network of regenerative farms and farmers. He met Lyric for the first time at a regional conference hosted by ASAP, where she gave a presentation for new and beginning farmers. After keeping in touch and crossing his fingers for an opportunity, he chose to join the team here this spring and continue his farming journey with Wild East. Drew’s enthusiasm and down-for-anything attitude is contagious in all the best ways.

He is passionate about food equity, reducing food waste, and inspiring future generations through agricultural education. Drew's connection to the natural world is deeply ingrained and he spends much of his time hiking, tending a small garden, and generally existing outside. His favorite memories come from exploring the deciduous forest around his childhood home, and one of his preferred activities was always digging in the dirt. Full circle indeed! 

Drew Miles farm crew

Rachel is a farmhand and clinical herbalist from the suburbs of Pennsylvania.  Her favorite flower aroma is lilac, and her favorite berry to pick is mulberry.  She's been climbing trees and running around barefoot since as long as she can remember; the woods raised her.

She began her plant tending life as a garden technician under a designer during the latter half of highschool and hasn’t looked back since.  Her endeavors as a WWOOFER on a rural herb farm in Pacific Northwest led her to pursue clinical herbal medicine studies at Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism in the Hudson Valley of New York (2022-2025).  Her primary teachers are Claudia Keel, Richard Mandelbaum, and Samuel Perry.  Since beginning the program, she has been working on vegetable farms and has taken an interest in agroforestry practices, perennial crop production, and is excited for the opportunity to work with livestock as well.  

Gaining a deeper understanding of sustainable farm systems and ecology, she feels empowered to live a life committed to service, community, and ethical land stewardship practices.  Being in a harmonious relationship to a landscape and committed to a common mission with a group of people is a calling she has been searching for an answer to for years. Joining the team at Wild East Farm has been the easiest yes for her in a multitude of ways. We are grateful for how the farm is enhanced by Rachel’s clarity of focus and steady, well-rooted presence.

Rachel McGourney farm crew

Liv Suydam farm crew alum

Born in rural New Jersey and raised in Asheville, Liv was a beloved member of the farm team from June 2024 - June 2025.

Liv previously worked alongside Noah and Lyric for six years as a friend. Her passion for learning about and growing food blossomed after experiencing Noah and Lyric’s dedication to relational agriculture. Their mentorship served as a beacon of joy for Liv as she moved through high school, inspiring her to apply what she learned from them in her own community. The joy was mutual, and as soon as Lyric and Noah founded Wild East they began planning for Liv to join them.

Over the years of friendship, Liv spearheaded her own family’s vegetable garden and began exploring foraging projects that have a focus on women’s health. In the summer of 2023, Liv worked with AmeriCorps and the National Park Service as an intern, assisting different branches of the Park Service with their duties. After graduating from Asheville High School in the class of 2024, she officially joined the Wild East team and deepened her roots in the agriculture community in Western North Carolina. 

Liv was grateful to have the opportunity to learn alongside her community in WNC before starting at the University of Vermont in the Fall of 2025 where she plans to study plant biology.

Visit the Farm

Gathering community around food is truly one of our most beloved aspects of farming. We are currently only open to the public by appointment. While we don’t have many large events planned this year, we love welcoming fellow farmers for visits or tours.

Reach out if you are interested in coming by!