Our Story

I was 18 when I dropped out of pre-veterinary college in Michigan. I left to begin a life with my now husband, as he fulfilled his dreams as a Army Black Hawk pilot. This was back in 2015 all the way down in Fort Rucker, AL. We rented our first house together, a smallish place with a bitty backyard for our dogs to play in. Very quickly I found myself getting fidgety, I wanted something that was mine. Something to do beyond seeing the “sights”; what little there was in small town Alabama. So one weekend we built a little 3x5 raised garden. I grew tomatoes and pickling cucumbers, got my hands dirty and my heart happy. 

I wanted more… thus the email to our landlady and our first meat rabbits where purchased.

Out of PVC and chicken wire we quickly had multiple pens of these wonderful animals that truly started us down the long and twisty path to Setr Hill Farm.

In what felt like a blink of the eye graduation day was here.

 A fully fledged pilot and I packed our critters into our vehicles and hauled everything the 8 hours to our new home. We had purchased 4 acres in Woodlawn, TN. The homesteading, farming, and very soon sheep community welcomed me in with open arms. I had found my thing.

I dove in headfirst reading books, websites, talking to amazing breeders and mentors who to this day I still look to for guidance.

We spent almost 5 long years raising Icelandics in the hot and humid south. We battled through deployments. We dealt with the work and heartbreak of hot summers; learning quickly about parasites in sheep. Our daughters were both born in Nashville, TN becoming a central part of our farm operation.

Then looking forward and planning how we saw our life and wanting in every way to embrace shepherding, farming, and nature. Fostering a love of all things green and wild in our kids. We decided the Army wouldn’t allow us to do this. So in the middle of his second deployment myself and the girls made the trek with our herd of sheep, our chickens, our pets, and our Gampr guardian dogs back to our roots. We were back in Michigan! And thus the house hunt had truly begun. This was all 2020, things were bleak to say the least but somehow we pulled it off. We had our little old farm house on 5 acres with a barn… and get this… we’d settled in Nashville, Michigan.

So here we were, in this beautiful new life. I looked across our open and empty fields and once again found myself getting fidgety. And so came the flowers. Buckets and buckets of bright beautiful blooms. I found my calling in this little slice of heaven sharing this beauty with all of you. I can’t wait to see what all the future seasons bring us.