Our Team
Army olsen
Army is Chief Organizer. He loved growing up on Seattle Farm riding horses, bottle feeding calves, sleeping outside under a giant cedar tree for one entire calendar year, and hosting farm events. Army started growing and selling pumpkins around age 8. His pumpkin harvest and pony rides event has grown into the first two Saturdays of October. Army also opened the farm more professionally for events as a way to share the horses and farm with more people. At his full time Monday through Friday job, Army analyzes apartment buildings and invests his own and other peoples’ funds into the multifamily buildings.
Lisa Sferra
CFO means Chief Fun Organizer to Lisa. She came home from the hospital to the farm in 1970, where she grew up in her great-grandparents’ house. Lisa hosted many large events at the farm throughout her youth and she also took care of any sick horses at the farm. She eventually attended University of Washington Medical School, where she was an anatomy TA. Lisa continues to teach science using the farm animals and introduce people to the joys of her beloved family farm.
Gigi Olsen
Gigi is the Chief Horse Officer. Brave, strong, gentle and artistic, Gigi can teach horses to laydown on command and take a nap with her. When she was a rising senior in high school, she took one of the farm’s ponies to the Kentucky Pony Finals, where she won a bronze medal in pony jumpers. More recently Gigi graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Art and Law, Societies and Justice. Gigi has a special gift for introducing children to horseback riding.
Gloria Sferra
The farm would not exist if it weren’t for Grandma and her deep-seated love of horses. During WW II grandma would come out to the farm with her mom to pick up her grandpa’s homemade butter. When Grandma grew up she convinced her then-boyfriend to buy her grandparents’ old run-down farm. Shortly after that the boyfriend proposed. Grandma has ridden her horses across Montana on the Chief Joseph Trailride, across Washington on the Old Milwaukee Road Trail and across Joint Based Lewis McCord with Woodbrook Hunt Club. Grandma started breeding ponies for her grandchildren and she is now apparently breeding ponies for her great grandchildren and the children and their families of Seattle who come visit us.
Garth Olsen
After retiring from 35 years in commercial real estate in downtown Seattle, Garth wasn’t sure how he would fill his days. If the lawns at Seattle Farm look evenly trimmed, we have Garth to thank. Garth listens to audiobooks and mows and mows and mows. Garth also bought Lisa the farm and a few surrounding properties, thus continuing the family tradition of expanding the farm.