Resources and Skills

Out in the countryside in the area of Mars Hill NC, there is a small Homestead with 20+ acres.
This is where I live.
Before this land was purchased the last owner raised sheep. There is a four stall animal barn that was built for these animals.

Now, these stalls have sat empty except for storage for a good number of years.

Perhaps barns can have a voice, because I hear this one wanting to be filled with animals again.

A Good quality home is waiting to be filled with animals

There is a lot of awesome fenced in pasture for grazing, ready to make some goats happy and healthy.

And that's me. I love my Chicken girls!

I bring a bit of skill gathered over the last 50 years to the table. First off, I was raised in Southern Minnesota, Dairy Central! All my first jobs as a teen were are on dairy farms, doing all the things that make a dairy farm work. I'm a certified permaculturist and spent a number of years living at Earthaven Ecovillage outside of Black Mtn Nc. A good chunk of that time I was getting up early to milk Daisy by hand, another Earthaveners dairy cow...if I remember right she was a Jersey.

As far as making good food, that is a place I have a reputation. I've made most of my income in the food and beverage world since I was 18. Though I don't have formal schooling a lot of people have called me Chef. I've been in all aspects of restaurant work.. from cooking to serving to managing to running a catering company and developing menus. I enjoy making people go yumm. Nurturing people with good food is so important and I  get a joy from it. Creating my own sustainable foods on land I live on with animals I raise... well that's just a big YES,

And goats? Goats are pretty amazing beings~besides being occasionally stubborn (a good reflection for me). Goats are darn friendly creatures that I have always found a fondness for.