Chloe Talbot and Julie Burns-Silva are both high school-ers who work at Harley Farms over the weekends. A work routine would include feeding and milking the goats, setting up the shop, and working at sales.
As for future plans, Chloe sees herself working at the Harley Farms for a few more years, but not as her main profession. She plans on nursing because she wants to do something with kids. Julie however, is considering nursing but at the same time, sheÕs also looking into agriculture and is deciding whether to be a nurse or a breeder for animals.

 

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Sam O’ Sullivan is one of Dee’s oldest friends. At the time she met Dee, Sam was working at a local restaurant called “Duarte’s Tavern”. Sam and Noreen Sims, the bartender at Dewark's, were Dee’s first investors.
After working at Duarte’s for twenty years, Sam retired and the minute she did, Dee asked her to come to the farm and watch her investment. Sam then started helping in the cheese shop and giving tours.
Just recently, Sam renewed her California nursing license, but she says it’s impossible to tear herself away from the farm, “I mean, how can you not love to be around such positive energy around the ranch?” (Sam) Sam “always love[s] talking about Harley Farms because there's nothing [she doesn’t] like.”

 

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Dee Harley first came to California from Yorkshire, England, when she was 18 years old.
She wasn’t a farmer yet, but in high school, when she took a career aptitude test, the top career result was a farmer. She first worked at an organic herb ranch while selling dried tomatoes to a woman in Santa Cruz named Nancy. When Nancy visited Dee to pick up the tomatoes, she noticed what a great place Dee lived in—an old 1910 cow dairy. So Nancy offered to sell Dee six goats, and thus started Harley Farms.

Now Harley Farms is not simply a goat farm, it is a staple in the Pescadero community. Dee opens up the upstairs hay loft for school Christmas pageants, donates the space for charity events, and gives pounds of cheese for various events. In the Harley Farms cheese shop, she also sponsors local businesses by selling their products. In addition, she’s given local scholarships to the high schools. Sam O’ Sullivan says that “[Dee] has the biggest heart you'd ever want to know, she's one of the kindest people, she's always first to help out in a time of need, so she's a real driving force in the Pescardero community.”

 

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