03/05/2026
Nearly everything in this photo carries a piece of my family’s history.
The walls and window of this little bathhouse were once part of my maternal great-grandmother Nola Nelson’s shotgun shack home, built in the 1930s just a couple miles from here. When the old house was taken down, we saved what we could and gave the wood a second life here at Jaybird Hammock Farm.
The robe I’m wearing is another heirloom — a vintage Chenille peacock robe from the 1940s that belonged to my grandmother, Marion Nelson. On chilly evenings, I sometimes wear it during our Moonlit Meditation gatherings here at the farm.
My family settled this area in the late 1920s, around the same time my husband’s families — the Ward and Jenkins families — settled here as well.
Nearly a century later, those roots are still part of this land.🦚
This place holds more than goats, trees and trails — it holds the people who came before us
