WhoWeAre

	Steve is a big man 6'4" with a kind heart and a gentle soul. He comes from a family of builders. He built his young family an octagonal house at their farm in Fulton County, PA. He is now putting his skills to work on our 1880s vintage log house and miscellaneous outbuildings including barn, chicken house and shed/garage. Most recently, he built our new dairy and creamery! He is also the one who runs the tractor, so he cares for fields of hay and corn for the livestock. He rebuilt our chicken house in time for the chicks to move in when they feathered out and created a garden shed from the old pig barn. He acquired the tiller, seed drill, baler, and other machinery needed for the fields and is on record as cutting, tedding, raking, baling, and picking up onto the hay wagon and then stacking in the barn 482 bales of organic hay single-handed. He was sore the day he finished, but still walking and milking the goats. A devout man of faith, Steve believes in peace and is active in seeking and sustaining it. Ours is a peaceful home. He has spent much of his professional life working to end homelessness in Washington, DC. Stepping down in summer 2006 as Deputy Executive Director, he continues to consult online for the Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness.
	Lucinda is small, but makes up for it in energy. Raised in the country, though not on a farm, she's most familiar with horse stables and forests. But now, she feels that she is home at last and has dived into gardening, livestock, dairy, and writing and updating the Paradise Gardens and Farm Organic Plan. Formerly an academic director and collegiate professor, she now consults for Second Language Testing, Inc., working online so she can farm fulltime. Her expertise is languages and research methodology. In Washington, DC she worked for the State Department in its language school and was a multilingual actor in area stage and film. Lucinda believes in lifelong learning; she is studying soil science, botany, sustainability and renewable energy, the health and care of chickens and goats, the proteins of goat milk, and most especially cheese making! Lucinda cans, freezes, and dries the summer's bounty in fall, tries to keep the greenhouse in winter salad greens and in Spring works the beds and berries. She runs the creamery and marketing for the farm. Portrait by Howard Nuernberger, Penn State Agriculture Magazine
	Wyatt is an English Shepherd, bred as the classic all-around farm dog, and he is an Excellent Dog. He is smart and good natured and is One Lucky Dog to have the run of the farm. Lying in front of him, we got Bella to be Wyatt's companion. She is a Springer Spaniel/Kitchen Sink Mutt composed of wriggles and bounces with a fluffy white tail at one end and steel-trap jaws at the other, set below the world's most mournful eyes. Bella is a hunter who has learned the hard way not to hunt chickens. They now coexist peaceably. Wyatt and Bella attend to everything and everyone on the farm. They do guard duty, barking at everyone that passes by, especially the horses drawing buggies and carts and announcing all visitors. They are very friendly. Wyatt no longer jumps when he meets new people, but Bella, a year younger, is still learning. And she loves to lick everyone. We're working on it...