Our Story

My husband Daniel and I are currently living on the family sheep dairy farm in Bath county, Kentucky. Still considered newlyweds we moved in with my parents to help our financial situation and help lift some of the work load that seemed to be growing each lambing season on my parents. Daniel and I have been married for two and a half years. We both grew up in a small town. It wasn't until a few months before our wedding that my family changed our complete way of living, moving from our log cabin home, packed everything up and moved forty minutes away. Calling it a “SPIRITUAL UNDERTAKING” because we were lead to do something different with our lives. My parents bought a 132 acre farm, 6 dairy sheep from Vermont, and a double wide.
    Leaving our home that I grew up in was very difficult but I didn't expect to fall in love so easily with the life I was about to begin on the farm. The simple life! Living on the farm for a few months before the wedding was enough to get a taste of the life I've always longed for. That's how my husband and I knew that when hard times came we had to go back to the farm.
    We've had to learn so much the past 3 years about farming, shepherding, dairying, and just trying to learn how we can live off the farm. Still learning, but my folks have successfully became the first sheep dairy in Kentucky, producing Kentucky's first sheep cheese. And that's how this adventure began!
Since we started our new beginning, I've tried so many new things that I'm so excited to get better at and eager to be able share all my new discoveries. From shepherding, farming, soap making, cleaning/carding/spinning wool, felting, knitting.....so much to endure on the farm and surroundings that I hope you will share in this excitement with me and even help me with ideas, techniques or a better way of doing things. I'm still learning so much, so any help is very much appreciated.


My husband Daniel and I had our wedding on the farm in July 2010.
My prayer is to be an example to set for others, a true SHEPHERDESS, not just on the farm, but in every aspect of my life.

This is my family; parents Sanford & Colleen, brothers Josh and Adam, and I. This was taken in 2006 at our old home.
My parents started this operation with their whole hearts and God leading them the whole way.


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