The land we farm has been farmed and stewarded by many people over centuries. Our farm is on the unceded land of the Abenaki nation. We know just the short and most immediate history of this place but part of the long commitment to being here on this land is a commitment to continue to learn and explore its history. We know that the house was built in 1797 and the barn in 1805. We know that around 2000, the farm was home to a sheep dairy called Mary Ella cheese. We know that there have been sheep raised on this land by at least the last four owners. 

We came to this farm several years into our search. Eva and Dani were living in Brattleboro and Ru came up for land search trips over the course of several years. We started searching in earnest just before the pandemic started and then continued as the pandemic changed and consumed our worlds. Our looked at first in Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont for farmland but over the years, as we didn’t find what we were looking for, we eventually shifted our search northward, to Central VT.

The second weekend looking we saw the farm where we now live and we were shocked to find that it had a cheesehouse, that it had been a sheep dairy, and that there were even a few of a neighbor’s sheep in some of the paddocks. Throughout our search we had hoped for an old goat or sheep farm but figured that was pretty improbable to find. Well, we found it and we took a big leap towards a future and a place we knew very little about. We bought the farm in November of 2022 and Eva and Dani moved here in June of 2023.