A rambling tale of an explanation, this is our story:
After my daddy had gone through a row or two in his life he hung a poster on the wall. It was a picture of a stubbled grizzled cowboy with these words underneath:
There was a helluva lot they didn't tell me when I signed on with this outfit.
Amen. Life. Amen.
Hey y’all, I’m Sarahbeth.
In the way of it, I started out wanting to change the world by making pretty dresses. For over a decade I was a one-woman indie apparel designing show. For almost 20 years I created bespoke heirloom gowns for brides, performers, and all-around incredible women celebrating life & their own amazing essence. Now I’m answering the call to teach folks how to create the frocks they’ve longed for. I believe more & more in the power of each of us dreaming, learning, and creating our castles in the sky, on this ground. Sound like what you’ve longed for? Click here to join me.
Other than that, my love, Gracia, and I fiddle around and work with good people on good things like environmental sustainability (Gracia), host artists/dancers in residence in our country-cathedral-esque big ole red barn loft with our neighbors -Trillium Arts-, & find our sanity gardening. Sometimes I sew special heirloom one-of-a-kinds for amazing women, paint, or throw some pottery. I come from a family of ministers, farmers, healers, and angsty cowboys. Gracia hails from Irish sailors, Mississippi riverboat captains, and sturdy & sure Minnesotans -the best of folk. Together this means we always have enough firewood, good tall tales, & fine whiskey.
Sometimes you've got to flail and fight to get where you're going, and where my love & I were bound is here, Odonata Farm. Browner from the sun than I'd like us, earnest (Gracia) and incorrigible (me) to the very end, this patch of dirt is our paradise and we're willing to share as it really only is borrowed from the bank, the folks that came before, or the great cosmic comedian in the sky.
On this farmplace website you’ll find photos of our 1880s farmhouse, barn & gardens, and possibly invitations to things like: small arts faires, spring fairy gown sample sales, summer garden tours, and berry picking, fall bonfires, apple collecting, and pumpkin patches, or even winter cider/ mead tasting and wreath creating. There may be eggs. There may just be dead chickens. There's a magical vacation cottage, newly completed, an orchard being planted, an heirloom fleur you-pick-'em garden, a barn studio in the works, and I'm pretty sure there's a hand whittled boat with blue heron mast being designed for my pond, no, I hear that's only in my head.... (for now). Stop by and say hi.
We see this website as a spot to house our growing endeavors, and to share a few items of interest and availability with you, dear reader.
Till next time,
-Sb, G & some mutts, a cow that isn't ours, a cat that thinks we're hers, a mess of pigeons and more dragonflies & damselflies than you can shake a stick at, hence: Odonata.
I see a lot of folks in Australia doing this - and dang, I like that Aussie spirit & I like accountability so:
We acknowledge the Cherokee people. This small farm is on land which they hunted, traveled, & stewarded. We live in traditional Cherokee territory.
