get to know me
I’m a dreamer with an appetite for adventure, a passion for sustainability, and a craving for slow living. Before trying my hand at motherhood and farming, I was a workaholic who backpacked around the globe mostly solo, traveled in a van, and lived in a remote off-grid house.
Now I live on 35 acres in rural Colorado with my husband Ryan, our toddler, sometimes my mom in her tiny house, our rescue dogs and collection of farm animals.
We are using our land to SLOWLY build a sustainable farmstead and farm stay accommodations.
from solo nomad to farm mom
After a decade of mostly solo travel, I crossed paths with my husband Ryan while we were both living in camper vans. We caravanned across the United States together and put down roots in Colorado. After 3 years of living off-the-grid in the middle of nowhere, we welcomed our son into the world and moved to our farmstead.
how it all began
I was raised as the only child of a single Army mom, so we moved around a lot. I attended 10 schools by 10th grade and was no stranger to travel by the time I graduated from high school. I spent most of my youth in Arizona though, and consider it where I’m from.
2012
Graduated with Bachelor’s
studied sustainability and global health, and did 3 study abroads during undergrad to England, Australia and Fiji
2013-2015
Living abroad
got my Master’s in International Development at University of Sydney, moved to Peru to teach English, then moved to Tanzania to work for an education and women’s empowerment nonprofit
2015-2017
Living in NYC
worked in the education and international non profit sector, burnt out & quit my job, then backpacked around Asia for 2 months to soul search
2017-2020
Van Life
converted a van, hit the road, then paused to work on my mom’s two legislative political campaigns, renovated my van, hit the road again, and met Ryan (the man that is now my husband)
2020-2023
Living Off Grid
bought our first off-grid house in the middle of nowhere, fixed it up, bought a second one down the road, and turned the first into a short term rental
2023-Present
Motherhood & Farmstead
became a mom after a high risk pregnancy that made us reassess our prioritizes and move closer to hospitals and other amenities, which brought us to our current farmstead
some random facts
- have 4 tattoos in black ink on my back
- went on my first wilderness backpacking trip at 21 to Havasupai
- advanced scuba certified
- summited Mount Kilimanjaro
- white water rafted the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon for 3 weeks
- countries lived in: U.S., Germany, Australia, Peru, Tanzania
- U.S. states lived in: New York, Arizona, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado
- seen 6 of the 7 new ancient wonders of the world
- have 2 half sisters (13 & 16 years younger than me)
- have celiac (can’t eat gluten)
- have anosmia (can’t smell)
- don’t eat mammals (since 2014)