Personal Bio
I (Brenda) was born in Powway, California in 1990. I was a Navy brat so we moved around quite a bit, mostly in Virginia. After going back out to California in 1998, my parents decided to settle down in a little town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland called Pocomoke City. I lived there until I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2009 out of Baltimore, Maryland. I was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina from 2010-2012 and then changed duty stations in 2012 to work out of Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. I met my super silly husband, Roy, while serving as a Military Police in the same unit. It was not love at first site, but it has grown to be something far better: a life and love we choose every day while working on being healthier individuals for ourselves and for eachother.
Roy wanted to attend the University of Kentucky when he separated from service in 2014 and I already knew by then that we wanted a life together. I followed him in the Fall of 2014 and have happily and proudly claimed Kentucky as my home ever since. I have yet to see a more beautiful and comforting state in all of America.
In 2017 we were certified to be foster parents through Necco Fostering Agency and were blessed by a set of twin boys in 2020. Six months to the day of welcoming them to our home we officially adopted them, and the rest is history. They are night and day, and have taught us so much about love, who we really are and how we see the world. I know it sounds cliche, but they really have. The farm was named with them in mind and our logo incorporates two male goats to signify them as well.
I have four strong, beautiful, bad ass sisters who ground me and complete me. We’ve been together seven times longer than it takes to grow a grape vine and we will be together until the cows willingly come home.
In December of 2022, we found our forever farm in Crab Orchard, KY. This beautiful home built in the 80’s came with its own problems. It was drafty, leaky, and the carpet was ruby red EVERYWHERE. In the spring pf 2023, we started renovations and didn’t finish until 2 days before Christmas. Now that we are finished with the house, it is time to focus our attention to the outside buildings and pastures and to make this forever farm just that. We hope you’ll join us for this adventure, as we navigate raising our beautiful boys, tending to our livestock with love and care, and cultivate this land so we leave it healthier than when we found it.
We Love you all, be blessed!
-Bean
