We've always had a purpose when it comes to making better choices for our family. Those choices also led us to wanting to create a better lifestyle, a healthier lifestyle, and a becoming better humans.
Living in the Philadelphia area and being actively involved in preserving and restoring historic Colonial homes is where our path genuinely began. Our country's Colonists were inventive and quite brilliant when it came to not only designing and building homes, but also to creating a completely sustainable and independent way of life.
The more we delved into restoring Colonial homes, the more we learned about the Colonists' way, and the more determined we became to also get our own family living a simpler, more sustainable, independent and ingenuity driven sort of life.
The result? Purchasing Marble Head Farms in 2017, restoring the original Manor House on the property, and returning it to the original way of life when the home was built in 1766. That meant re-establishing the herb and vegetable gardens, the orchard and bringing back the pastures for livestock grazing. We have also reintroduced Honey Bees and other beneficial traditional methods to ensure sustainability, renewability and an overall more regenerative ecosystem to the property.
Several years later, our "Gentleman's Farm" is becoming all that its original owners intended. Of course, like all farms, it is still a work in progress, but we are seeing the hard work is definitely worth the effort.
Our cows graze on clover and native grass, our hives are establishing, and the bees are pollinating. Our chickens are settling in nicely to their new roost and producing so many eggs! (We have them with us at the Farmer's Market for sale) The resident wildlife also contributes, both pollination and pest management.
While we didn't quite expect to become Green Acres Farmers, we are so glad we did and we welcome you to the Marble Head Farms Family!
If you're at all interested in learning more about the history of Marble Head Farm, it is listed with the Maryland Historical Trust's Registry here. We found it to be full of really interesting ... well, history! It was pretty neat.
