I'm Jewish. Unlike most Jews I know, I grew up on a homestead in Bozeman, Montana with a big veggie garden, dairy goats, horses, dogs and cats. It was a wonderful way to grow up and I always knew I'd want to raise my own family on a farm some day.

I met my husband, Geoffrey, when I was fouteen years old and we've been together ever since. When we were in college we started exploring organic farming as a future we could share together. Now, deep into the farming life, I can't remember if we even ever talked about any other possibility. You could say that farming is in our blood.

I was born and raised here in Pepin County Wisconsin, five miles from the land that is now home to Avodah Farm. Although my family didn't farm for a living, much of our daily life revolved around growing food,
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I began spending my summers working with Martha on small sustainable farms. I fell in love with the work, and I came to feel that of all livelihoods, farming was most in harmony with my Quaker values. We all depend on soil, water, sunlight, and growing plants to sustain our lives, but most ways of making a living today distance us from this fundamental reality. Inspired by the Quaker Testimony of Simplicity, I wanted to live in direct relationship with the source of my sustenance.