自我介绍

A good day: being outside anywhere doing anything. Mostly that means working on our small CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm, but it includes hiking, walking up the hill past the sheep and horses, and reading/napping in the hammock. Baking, cooking, and preserving food are favorite things I do inside--and being with friends and family. On my bookshelves: Tolkein, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, Maria Semple, Ingrid Unsted, Michael Pollan, Patrick Rothfus (to name a few). In my pantry (from our fields): assortment of dried beans, red onion marmalade, zucchini relish, Dilly beans, peaches, salsa, strawberry syrup, hot mustard relish (to name a few). I try to pay attention to bees and butterflies, the budding of trees, the creek's annual journey, the emergence of daffodils, bird, hen, and squirrel play--and to respond to life with gratitude, hoping to help life flourish by loving and tending the places of the world I touch. I hope to greet you when you arrive, but if I'm harvesting vegetables or otherwise out and about I'll catch up with you later. I'm glad to show you around Fern Creek or let you explore the five acres on your own. Mostly we hope the peace and beauty of this place feeds and nurtures your soul as it does ours. We've created a space for guests with that hope in mind.