I grew up in Southern Texas, my parents were originally New Yorkers and thus moved back to the North East when I was 12, to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I went to college in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. After graduation I moved to Boston, meeting up with my now husband who was in graduate school there. We lived in Boston until my husband wanted to go back to school and finish his PhD, which brought us to Capitol Hill in our Nation's Capital. That was a hectic place, so much happening all the time especially after 911. I spent a few more years in the IT industry, taking different federal government jobs until having my second child and realizing I could not raise my children, manage a 247 job and stay healthy. I finally quit and put my passion into our children, creating community gardens around SE DC and starting a direct farm to consumer buying club, which helped bring better food options to our family and hundreds of others in the DC Metro Area. After 7 years on the Hill and having two young boys we decided to move to Takoma Park, MD just over the boarder from DC. We lived there for 5 years, enjoying the diverse community and a much larger yard where we had chickens and implemented a permaculture design around our house. It was lovely, but the urban area eventually wore me down and I really wanted to continue my pursuit of gardening and expand it into farming, that's when we moved to our current location in Columbia County, New York. We haven't looked back since. During our stay in Takoma Park I was homeschooling our children but felt once my eldest reached third grade that I needed to find a more cultured environment for him to learn, thus we began looking for Waldorf schools in a strong farming community and near potential academic jobs for my husband, that's when we settled in Ghent, NY. Realizing this area has a strong short term rental economy and that we have a great location to share we decided to add a second story to our barn.