Ever since I was young, I have dreamt of a place to live in harmony with nature.
I've always wanted to grow my own food and be self sustainable. I spent a lot of my life traveling wherever the road took me. It brought me up to the mountains of Colorado wrangling horses on the great divide. It brought me to Napa Valley for beekeeping in the vineyards and countryside all over the bay area in California. I found myself in Mexico learning from the Huitchol people about their survival story of escaping the Spaniards by hiding in the mountains and growing their corn and other essential crops. But being close to nature has always been a part of my life, or simply said being wild. My family has always kept a garden full of food.
My grandpa was my inspiration. He always had jars of herbal medicine to put on my wounds and teas for my headache. Walking around his gardens one can find apple trees growing with multiple varieties grafted onto one tree and wild herbs growing all around. When my daughter was born there was a greater call to return back to country life. I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time. Like an answer to a prayer I found the beautiful home that we now call The Wild Farm in 2019.
One day I called my grandpa up on the phone to tell him about my life and the farm. He said in a nostalgic voice “I used to live on a farm in Vermont as a boy I would milk goats. My family grew their own food, raised our own milk and meat.” It was so special to hear that.. It came as a surprise to me but also of course! Look at that 100 years later his granddaughter returns to a simple life like he used to live. It's in my family. In our blood. My grandpa also carries the ancestry of the original people of the land here in Vermont. So when I tend to the land it goes back deeper than my grandfather. I am answering the call of those before us to continue a tradition of honoring and respecting the earth. Living in harmony with the natural world around us. The Wild Farm is not only a safe haven to relax and retreat into nature but a living and breathing farm reminding us all of our place in the natural world and how to take care of ourselves and the earth.
Places, experience and landscapes that have shaped me and lead my path to where I am today.
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