Pansori is a traditional Korean form of musical storytelling that means "a situation where many people are gathered” or "a song composed of varying tones.”
It represents my Korean heritage and the many voices of the beings we gather with on the farm — be it ourselves, our community members, sheep, chickens, geese, guinea fowl, red-tailed hawks, eagles, coyotes, bears, bats, or bees.
Pansori Farm is on 144 acres of forest, creek, and rolling hills in Catskill, NY (unceded Mohican and Haudenosaunee lands). We aim to grow Korean & Chinese medicinal herbs, fruits, and mushrooms as well as raise sheep, chickens, and pigs.
We also want to foster a nourishing space for our communities to gather, learn, and celebrate. Some activities we hope to offer in the future include horseback archery, falconry, and traditional land-based celebrations.
In 2025, we began our first year stewarding land with a starter flock of Romeldale CVM sheep, a critically endangered heritage breed known for mild tasting meat and fine wool. We are learning about silvopasture and forest farming in hopes of planting trees in the open pastures and perennials in the forest.
I’m Hyunhee, the founding land steward of Pansori Farm.
I am a genderqueer Korean survivor who is obsessed with intimate networks of care. I began rehydrating my relationship to land by studying community herbalism with the People’s Medicine School and urban farming with Farm School NYC out of a deep desire to tap into my ancestral lineage of land stewardship.
I come from a family of peasant farmers in Korea and my maternal great-grandfather was an acupuncturist and herbalist in our home village. My family's farming and herbal medicine practice skipped my parents' generation, so I'm slowly learning my way back to a relationship with plants and the land.
