Michael, the Renaissance Boy, hayed the land we are living on as a teenager. He went on to study electronics, geology, psychology, and art. He left Western Wisconsin after graduating from the Air Force and college, moved to New Mexico, where he met Virginia. Euell Gibbons inspired him to appreciate dandelion greens and wine, which led to a yearning to make cheese, bread, and other yeast-based food (more wine!). Being the primary caretaker of two daughters honed his teaching, and learning, skills. He starts trees wherever he goes, and now has come home to seeds planted nearly 20 years ago, when this project first took root.
Virginia, the Adventurous Girl, grew up in California. She fell in love with wool, spinning, weaving, and designing clothes when she spent a summer with her family in Alaska at the age of 15. She took a long detour from being a fiber artist to study Human Biology at Stanford, then attended law school at U.C. Berkeley. Between degree programs she took a year to help rehab an adobe ruin in New Mexico, which her parents had purchased as a retirement home. That is where she met Michael. After clerking for a federal judge in Montgomery, Alabama, she became an Assistant Federal Defender (representing indigent people charged with crimes in federal court) for almost 25 years, working both in Minnesota and Maine. She loves to hunt, fish, cook good food, spin and dye wool, dig in the dirt, build things, and raise animals and children with Michael.
This is our latest adventure. We share it with you.