Our Story
Sometimes it seems like about 90% of the reason why we are out here is that Sally and I share a passion for food. Put simply—we love to eat.  And living here gives us a chance to eat the freshest, healthiest and most delicious food, from the most local source: our own back yard. From our kitchen garden that produces fresh vegetables and berries in season, to our small orchard, to our pasture-raised meats, our lives here are filled with the quest to enjoy great eating. But any story of who we are and how we came to be here is bound to me a more complicated mish-mash of factors than just wanting to eat well. What follows is an attempt to condense that tale a bit for you, and to introduce you more fully to us, and the source of your food.

When I was a student at Kenyon College, I came out of a combined Religion/Sociology class one day overwhelmed with anxiety that there just didn’t seem to be any place in the world where I could live out the values of family, community, stewardship, peaceableness, faith, and creativity that had been at the heart of my upbringing on the plains of Kansas. (And of course it seemed like food and eating were at the heart of so many of the childhood events which shaped those values—from nightly family dinners to church potlucks). It should have come as no surprise to me me that day that the image which...read more