Farmhouse Communications is a full-service public affairs, public relations, community relations and grassroots coalition-building firm that serves clients throughout California’s
Central Coast.

We provide the best, most thorough, innovative strategic advice, planning, execution and continual evaluation for projects ranging from major land use proposals to health program initiatives. We are committed to your success, fully integrating ourselves into your strategy, brand and message to ensure that you thrive, win at the ballot box, on the dais and in the court of public opinion. We pride ourselves on providing an excellent level of personal service.

Farmhouse Communications cultivates relationships by sowing the seeds of strategic communications, allowing big ideas to take root.

  • We’re not about taking credit; we’re about getting the job done collaboratively.
  • The Farmhouse Communications team collaborates to achieve your desired results. We all roll up our sleeves and really dig in.
  • We believe in working hard and providing personalized service.
  • We’re guided by the principles of respect, honesty, ethics and achieving true sustainability for our community.

Farmhouse Communications:
A True Community Partner

Farmhouse Communications is a proud supporter of many organizations including:

Gilroy Chamber of Commerce 

GilPAC (Gilroy Business Political Action Committee)

San Benito County Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau

San Benito County Business Council

San Benito County Farm Bureau 

Monterey County Farm Bureau

Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce

Rotary Club of Salinas

Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce

Monterey County Business Council

Grower-Shipper Association of Central California

Gonzales Chamber of Commerce

California Women for Agriculture Salinas Valley Chapter

Community Foundation for San Benito County

Monterey County Young Professionals Group

Salinas Jaycees

Hartnell College Foundation

Central Coast YMCA

 

Kristina Chavez-Wyatt

President/Owner

With more than a decade of business advocacy, public relations and government affairs experience, Kristina Chavez Wyatt specializes in helping organizations build coalitions of support through grassroots.

At Farmhouse Communications, Kristina focuses on assisting businesses in developing and executing strategic communications programs, building relationships and navigating processes of government. Read More

Our job is simple: we help you grow and sustain your business and win at the ballot box, on the dais and in the court of public opinion. We strive to provide the best, most thorough, innovative strategic advice, planning, execution and continual evaluation.

Our Services

Grafting with your organizational strategies, goals and leadership team, we boost your efforts to thrive with:

Public Affairs 

  • Policy and stakeholder diligence
  • Assessment and analysis
  • Coalition development
  • Legislation, issue and agency tracking
  • Political and process navigation
  • Advocacy

Public Relations

  • Media relations
  • Media training
  • Earned media
  • Brand and reputation management
  • Internal and external communications audits and plan development
  • Public outreach via traditional, social and new media

Community Relations

  • Building positive networks via interpersonal relationships
  • Maintaining visibility
  • Coordinating philanthropic strategies, plans and budgets (time, talent, treasure)

Communications

  • Key message, tactic and instrument development
  • Branding, presentations, web, print, mail, phones, collateral, signage and more

At Farmhouse, we cultivate relationships by sowing seeds of strategic communications, allowing big ideas to take root.

• San Benito County Business Council – association management and development, issues diligence and advocacy, policy analysis, meeting and event management
• San Benito Health Care District / Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital – communications, community engagement, media
• Community Foundation for San Benito County / San Benito County Public Health Department – Healthy San Benito Initiative
• City of Salinas- General Plan Economic Development Element (EMC Planning) & Downtown Vibrancy Plan (Kimley-Horn), Save HSBC Jobs Salinas (Meridian Pacific)
• Chambers of Commerce Policy Analysis, Government and Community Relations- Salinas Valley, Monterey Peninsula and Gilroy
• Monterey County and San Benito United for Energy Independence
• Santana Ranch community development proposal, San Benito County – land use, communications, community engagement
• Salinas Planning and Research Corporation (SPARC) – land use
• NESTech Management Group- Boronda Meadows master plan development proposal
• Gilroy, San Benito County, Monterey Peninsula & Salinas Valley Chambers of Commerce – government relations
• Plasco Energy Group – municipal solid waste, alternative/renewable energy, land use, public engagement
• California Department of Food and Agriculture- Light Brown Apple Moth program
• Walmart – public engagement, community relations
• No on A Plan for the People- Monterey County General Plan Initiative – media relations, political strategy
• Yes on T Salinas City Elementary School District Bond – feasibility study, campaign plan
• No on J Monterey County for Energy Independence- community and media communications, coalition building
• Donna Alonzo Vaughan for Monterey County Superintendent of Schools – campaign strategy, communications and fundraising
• Yes on A Monterey County for Safe Transportation (2006)- campaign plan, execution, events, communications, endorsements
• Chevron Pipeline Company- Southern Monterey County, Fresno County – government and community relations
• Californians Against SB 469- Statewide “Big Box Ordinance” – government and community relations
• Committee to Save Long Valley (grassroots coalition)- Agricultural land preservation, private property protection, governmental agency cooperation, environmental and social justice
• Alliance for Main Street Fairness – government, media and community relations
• Alliance of Communities for Sustainable Fisheries– government, media and community relations
• California Fisheries Coalition – government, media and community relations
• California American Water- Coastal Water Project community outreach
• Westfield Corporation, Gilroy – Large-scale retail & hospitality destination – government, media and community relations
• Cherry Orchard Ranch, Gilroy – master planned senior housing and recreation proposal
• Tanimura and Antle, Salinas – communications, land use
• Pacific International Marketing / Pure Pacific Organics, Salinas – communications, land use

Santana Ranch,
San Benito County

We develop and execute public affairs, PR and community relations campaigns for commercial and residential community development proposals. Working with the Santana Ranch project team, we coordinated targeted communications programs to reach select audiences with an overall goal of achieving community and political support. Programs included branding, print collateral development, direct mail, media and comprehensive meeting information kits, media relations, media training, advertising, website, video flyover projects, community information meetings and informational tables, stakeholder outreach, supporter cultivation and development. The campaign resulted in unanimous approvals.

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With more than a decade of business advocacy, public relations and government affairs experience, Kristina Chavez Wyatt specializes in helping organizations build coalitions of support through grassroots. At Farmhouse Communications, Kristina focuses on assisting businesses in developing and executing strategic communications programs, building relationships and navigating processes of government.

Prior to forming Farmhouse Communications, Kristina was a senior account executive for the prominent national public affairs firm Meridian Pacific, Inc., as well as a senior account executive at the Central Coast public relations firm Armanasco Public Relations, Inc., where she specialized in community relations, government affairs and media relations with a primary focus on PR, public and environmental policy, agriculture, and land use.

Kristina serves as the Executive Director of the San Benito County Business Council, as Government Affairs Liaison to the Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, and provides strategic counsel to Plasco Energy Group of Ottawa Canada. She volunteers extensively throughout the region, providing pro-bono support to the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce Board as Vice Chairman of Public Affairs and to the Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce Board as Vice Chair of Government Affairs and Community Relations. She serves on the Board of Directors of the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau, where she is co-chair of the Chamber’s Government Relations Committee.

Kristina was recognized as the 2009 Salinas Jaycees Outstanding Young Citizen, the 2010 Central Coast Young Farmers and Ranchers Member of the Year and the 2010 Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce Member of the Year.

In addition to her professional achievements, she is actively involved in:

  • Monterey and San Benito County Farm Bureaus
  • Grower Shipper Association of Central California
  • Rotary Club of Salinas, Salinas Jaycees
  • California Women for Agriculture
  • Monterey & San Benito County Farm Days
  • Hartnell College Foundation Scholarship Committee

Kristina is a fifth generation Californian. A graduate of Gavilan College and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Agriculture, she lives in Hollister with her husband Craig, their twin toddlers Hailey Marie and Molly Elizabeth, and dog Chico.

Kristina Chavez-Wyatt

President/Owner

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