Erin was raised on the Eastern Shore, and can trace her ancestry there many generations back. She grew up wandering the shores of Cherrystone Creek just a few miles from where our farm is now, and exploring the Barrier Islands, her favorite place on Earth. After college, she studied at Maternidad La Luz in El Paso and delivered over 100 babies before becoming a Certified Professional Midwife. After she and I married in 2013 and decided to start a family, we moved back to the Eastern Shore, which had been calling on her to return for many years. Now, she homeschools our three children, maintains our home and our Airbnb guesthouse, and strives to give our children the best childhood we can conceive of.

I (Thomas) grew up in Austin, TX and went to college in Arizona, where Erin and I met. My 20's were basically about spending as much time outside as possible, and my travels included hiking the Pacific Crest Trail twice, the Arizona Trail, bicycling across the country, and thousands of hours behind a camera practicing wildlife photography. In 2008 I started work on the Carson Hotshot Crew, and spent the next 10 years as a Hotshot and then a Smokejumper, traveling all over the country fighting wildfires in remote places. After Josephine was born, I took a job with the Virginia Beach Fire Department until Erin and I were able to get our farm up and running, which had always been our dream. To work outdoors with our hands, and raise our children on a working farm.