A retired business manager of St. Joseph Catholic Church Audrey Ann wears many hats.  Formally trained in Fashion Merchandising and Business she loves color, design and attention to details.

While also owning a shop for 37 years her interests have been designer, stylist, forager, gardener, herbalist, baker, seamstress, spinner, fabric dyer, weaver and wool crafter.  She conducts pie workshops at the farm and sells her pies.  She loves history and is the president of her local historical society. She’s known for her corgis and says “you just can’t have one!”

Her most favorite hat is shepherdess. You can always find her hanging out with her sheep.  She loves helping other sheep farmers and through a local veterinarian mentors new sheep farmers.  She has coordinated a Shepherds group for gatherings of sharing.  She loves her local farming community. A huge believer in education she attends agriculture and animal husbandry classes at the local Penn State Extension.

Along with her husband Dave they have a candle business, host workshops, is involved in local agriculture & conducting their own farm tours.

Ask what her greatest accomplishment is and she’ll tell you her “lovely children”

Dave too wears many hats. While working full time he was busy setting up at antique shows, sometimes doing as many as 3 a month.  He takes care of the lavender including the cutting and de-budding.  He’s also involved with the farm shop. After Dave retired from welding in the local steel mill he was certified to teach welding and taught in the Pittsburgh and New England area.  He loves animal husbandry owning at different times cows, turkeys, chickens and sheep. Loving to use his hands he converted one of the barns on their farm into their home. He built all the outbuildings, small and large, and moved his wife’s ggg grandparents post and beam 1824 home to their farm. Attending art school in his early years has brought his creativeness full circle through his love of blacksmithing.  He has been featured in newspapers and in the national magazine Early American Life.  His own designed colonial fruit dryer was a popular seller for them.  At the farm he conducts blacksmithing workshops and is busy with custom work for log and early homes and early Americana wares.  He’s been bending iron for over 40 years and is quoted “I used to be paid to straighten iron, now I’m paid to bend iron.” 

He enjoys time on the farm in their lavender patch, gardening, and raising sheep. He loves attending farm & tractor shows.