Ryan and I started dating our junior year of high school and by junior year of college, we were ready to dive into marriage. We tag-teamed the roles of student and financial provider after marriage until we both completed our undergraduate degrees at the University of Missouri. Ryan works as a construction project estimator and I stay home to run the farm and homeschool our kids. We have three kids: Rosie(7) Forrest(5) & Faye(2).
We both love to learn new skills, which often translates into the next home renovation, homesteading practice, or car project on our plate. After renovating our 1920’s home in downtown Columbia, Missouri we started to discuss our dreams of owning land when the idea of farming lavender came to us. We decided to look for land with the intent to farm and wound up finding our next fixer-upper in the process. If we aren’t working in the field or at our current jobs we are chipping away at house updating projects. We have family that is just as crazy as we are and without them, the farm dream would not be attainable.