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Meet Liz
I am a native Hoosier: my home place is a farm in the trees and hollows of southern Indiana. Growing up, the farm was a place of snapped beans and canned tomatoes, hikes and hard work. My family instilled a deep love of home as well as passion for travel. I have made friends with Alaskan crabs, Maine sheep, California trees, Colorado mountains, Indiana creeks, and some remarkable people as well. Through it all, my agricultural roots have held firm. I’ve spent the last four years honing my farming, teaching, and naturalist skills.
Meet Nate
Since 2009, my adventures have been farm adventures. I’ve sheared sheep in Maine, cared for cattle in New York and slaughtered chickens in Vermont. I have worked on vegetable farms, but I prefer to spend my time caring for and working with animals in a pasture. Through farming, I can enjoy hard work and delicious food while I watch our home grow.
Our Powers Combined
We got married in the front pasture here at the Farm in 2009. Since then we’ve been up to our ears in good friends, good food, and good farms. Our families have supported us every step of the way, and we couldn't be more grateful.
We didn’t really plan to spend these last five years farming, but we kept landing on farms. We started in Pennsylvania, working a seasonal gig on a veggie farm. The search for winter work ended with a job offer in Maine, where we worked as educators on a demonstration farm. We fell in love with caring for the barnyard animals (especially the sheep), and two farmers who took us under their wings, introducing us to raising livestock on pasture. We started to think that we could farm professionally, but we wanted a few more adventures (and a lot more experience) first.
Liz went to grad school to study natural resources, where she focused on the intersection of rivers and farms. Nate worked to hone his farming skills. A few very formative months at Essex Farm in Essex, New York, taught Nate worlds about the daily care of cattle, pigs, chickens and horses – and about what fun a farming community can be. Jericho Settler’s Farm in Jericho, Vermont, was his next farm, where he learned exhaustively about production scale vegetables and friendship. Liz finished up grad school, and we made Maple Wind Farm in Huntington, Vermont our last stop. Beth and Bruce pushed our farming and business skills, and the whole gang at the top of Carse Road gave us the confidence to head home to farm.
We have been inspired by the incredibly supportive people we call friends and family. We have been awed by the beautiful landscapes we called home. And we have been educated by hundreds of animals along the way. We keep all of these people, places and animals in mind as we implement their lessons here at home.
We got married in the front pasture here at the Farm in 2009. Since then we’ve been up to our ears in good friends, good food, and good farms. Our families have supported us every step of the way, and we couldn't be more grateful.
We didn’t really plan to spend these last five years farming, but we kept landing on farms. We started in Pennsylvania, working a seasonal gig on a veggie farm. The search for winter work ended with a job offer in Maine, where we worked as educators on a demonstration farm. We fell in love with caring for the barnyard animals (especially the sheep), and two farmers who took us under their wings, introducing us to raising livestock on pasture. We started to think that we could farm professionally, but we wanted a few more adventures (and a lot more experience) first.
Liz went to grad school to study natural resources, where she focused on the intersection of rivers and farms. Nate worked to hone his farming skills. A few very formative months at Essex Farm in Essex, New York, taught Nate worlds about the daily care of cattle, pigs, chickens and horses – and about what fun a farming community can be. Jericho Settler’s Farm in Jericho, Vermont, was his next farm, where he learned exhaustively about production scale vegetables and friendship. Liz finished up grad school, and we made Maple Wind Farm in Huntington, Vermont our last stop. Beth and Bruce pushed our farming and business skills, and the whole gang at the top of Carse Road gave us the confidence to head home to farm.
We have been inspired by the incredibly supportive people we call friends and family. We have been awed by the beautiful landscapes we called home. And we have been educated by hundreds of animals along the way. We keep all of these people, places and animals in mind as we implement their lessons here at home.