French Creek Farmhouse

Rob & Kristi • Researcher-practitioners turned farmsteaders. Prone to making good trouble. Devoted to a life well-lived.

Hi! We’re Rob & Kristi, former misfit suburbanites turned small-farm renegades embracing the wild, messy pursuit of a life well-lived. Between us, we hold a PhD + two master’s degrees, decades of experience as researcher-practitioners in psychology & human development, and a good deal of dirt-under-the-fingernails farmsteading experience.

We’ve spent our careers doing psychosocial research—studying how systems of power affect human behavior and autonomy—and we've always focused our work on trying to understand what it actually takes to build a life worth living. Then we made the decision to try to live it out loud on a working farm.

We purchased a fixer-upper farmhouse + a couple of neglected acres, traded conventional suburbia for country air, and set to work building the life we craved. Told with honesty, love, humor, and radical acceptance—this is our story.