Our Story
In 2012 while living in a musty first story apartment in Des Moines, Iowa we created a dream. Flannery narrated the landscape to Adam as he took ink to paper - a creek, an orchard, a maple tree situated by a humble farmhouse with plenty of outbuildings. It was a figment then, but they were sick of city noise and cockroaches that scampered under kitchen cupboards. We stuffed the drawing away, but didn’t forget what they had envisioned.
Fast forward and we found ourselves back in Northeast Iowa on the hunt for our forever home. Weekends were consumed with driving the countryside scouring the same roads for potential leads on land and a farm house. We actively pursued and researched a hair-brained idea of moving a home to the country, but the cost of temporarily moving power lines was too prohibitive. Everything that seemed promising was too modern, too far, too out of our budget. Until one summer day we found a place for 27 acres and a farm that seemed too good to be true.
Our drowsy country lane sees about 6 cars a day. We’ve swapped city noise for coyotes, sandhill cranes, bull frogs and the occasional bellows of distant cattle. The farm is an island, amongst a sea of sweeping corn and soybean fields, 14 acres of CRP, habitat for those creatures, some hay and the rest of the space to play and practice all of the things we’ve dreamt about for so long!
About Us
Adam
Adam grew up spending weekends on the Bohach family farm, about 25 minutes from our home. When he was 4 years old his toenails fell off after insisting he could keep up with the adults picking rock. That stubborn streak hasn’t left him. In his adult life it has manifested itself in the pursuit of endurance events. Adam has 15 years of teaching experience and embraces every moment of his summer break to do farming and his own training for marathons and road races. In addition to teaching high school science, Adam is a licensed massage therapist and coaches adult athletes in running and triathlons. From 2012-2014 he held his professional triathlete license, but gave up the swimming and biking for his first love, running. He now trains mostly for marathons, chasing a dream to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Trails.
Flannery
Flannery grew up helping her Mom start seedlings and tending flower gardens. She could often be found with a turkey baster watering trays of seeds in her parent’s sunroom. In college, she took on the role as campus garden manager and rekindled her love of all things gardening and food production. Flannery holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and a Masters in Public Health in Community Health Education. She currently directs an employee wellness program at a community college. She loves that she’s able to combine her personal passions for connecting people to good food and physical activity for a living. She stumbled upon cross country in middle school when she thought it was a requirement to be involved in an extracurricular activity and cried after the first practice. She has dabbled with the marathon, but much prefers distances shorter than 10 miles. She boasts that she can beat Adam off the starting blocks.