Your Hosts
Paul & Emily Grubb

We have created a space where
Service and Community come together.

Service has always been at the center of who Paul and Emily are — long before Cascadia Meadows existed. In their younger years, both served as volunteers through AmeriCorps and the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest, an experience that set the tone for lives of intentional giving. Emily went on to spend six years as an administrator at a school on the Northern Cheyenne and Crow reservations in southeastern Montana, where she built lasting relationships with the people and cultures there that she still cherishes today. Paul carried that same spirit across the globe — working as a prison chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, teaching refugees in East Timor, staffing a soup kitchen and helping transport medical supplies across the border in Tijuana, working as a DJ in Chevak Alaska and spending a year living and learning in Australia. He also spent three years with the Haudenosaunee people at Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario Canada. Between them, they have worked in communities across Central America, Europe, and throughout the United States — experiences that gave them a deep, abiding respect for the full breadth of human life and the power of showing up for people.

That same impulse shows up every day right here on Whidbey Island. Paul and Emily volunteer with the Whidbey Watershed Stewards, teaching at the outdoor classroom and hosting their annual fundraiser. Paul sits on the board of the Maxwelton Creek Alliance, which is actively working to restore salmon runs to the creek that flows through the valley. They are stewards of the Silliman Preserve through the Whidbey Camano Land Trust, and they offer their time and treasure to local nonprofits including the Island Shakespeare Festival and youth dance and theater programs. They support Ballydidean Farm Sanctuary, a local animal refuge, and co-preside over the Maxwelton Community Club — the organization behind the beloved annual Fourth of July parade, which also directs proceeds to island nonprofits each year. Food security is also close to their hearts. Paul and Emily are active supporters of both Queen Bee Pantry and Good Cheer, South Whidbey’s community food banks.

When couples choose to celebrate at Cascadia Meadows, they are supporting a business that is genuinely woven into the life of this island — one that sees its role not just as a venue, but as a neighbor, a steward, and a force for good in the community it calls home.