From Garden to downtown Louisville to her novel TV show.
By Yelena Sapin
Maggie Keith’s connecter to the province is inward her blood. She grew upwardly visiting her grandparents on the family’s Foxhollow Farm inward Crestwood, Kentucky, which she at nowadays runs amongst her woman rear equally third- together with fourth-generation stewards of the land. When she’s non taking tending of business, the self-described farm daughter works the garden for her 10-person CSA (community-supported agriculture) network together with tends to the farm’s 2.5-acre pumpkin patch. Gardening is her passion, but Maggie also loves the urban perks of living inward downtown Louisville amongst her hubby Benton. The Keiths are growing their family, also — their babe is due inward the fall, presently after Maggie puts her garden to bed for the winter. In the meantime, this city-dwelling farm daughter takes us along for a walk inward some of the shoes she wears throughout the week.
Her Gardening Shoes
Tuesdays together with Wednesdays are Maggie’s garden days. She’s upwardly at 5:30am to practise yoga (via YouTube) together with meditate or reverberate on the hateful solar daytime ahead. Breakfast is farm-fresh eggs or oatmeal together with seasonal fruit, or a smoothie made from her stash of fruit frozen when inward season.
Maggie gets to the farm to a greater extent than or less 6:30 together with spends a tranquillity sixty minutes checking on things together with enjoying lonely fourth dimension inward the garden earlier her 2 intern assistants arrive. She wears her Oliberté operate shoes when she gardens, or Chaco sandals if she’s non using whatsoever tools that mightiness hold upwardly unsafe to unprotected toes.
Midweek afternoons Maggie takes the morning’s harvest to the Norton Commons farmers market, where she loves to interact amongst people at the Foxhollow Farm stand, hence returns to the farm to unload her empty coolers. The farming days current of air downward i time all the operate is done or it gets dark, together with Maggie goes identify for dinner amongst her hubby together with an eve walk through Waterfront Park amongst their King Charles Spaniel named Oscar together with Maltipoo named Pickles. By 10pm she’s ready to plough in.
Barefoot inward the Office
Mondays, Thursdays, together with Fridays are Maggie’s days to accept tending of the describe of piece of employment organisation side of farming. She gets upwardly at her usual 5:30am together with arrives at the Foxhollow Farm role straightaway from an early on forenoon Pilates class. The days are hence devoted to coming together amongst staff, working on marketing, events, together with community relations, together with brainstorming amongst her creative team.
As on the other days, luncheon is commonly the farm’s ain beef that Maggie prepares at identify together with brings to work, accompanied past times the garden’s fresh bounty of the day. She ever takes an hour-long luncheon intermission together with encourages everyone else to practise the same, whether it involves socializing amongst coworkers, reading, or taking a walk through the woods that flank the farm.
The garden is never far from Maggie’s mind, however. She keeps a diversity of shoes inward her role hence she tin become out together with banking enterprise jibe on the plants throughout the hateful solar daytime inward whatsoever form of weather. When dorsum at her desk, she kicks off the dirtied shoes together with works barefoot.
Her City Shoes
Mondays together with Thursdays Maggie leaves the role a picayune after 6pm — what she considers early on — to run into at a Heine Brothers java store amongst a adult woman who’s instruction her Spanish. Fri afternoons she makes her way to the Crescent Hill Radio station to tape progressive patio dinner together with her cracking hot chicken recipe). After recording, the 2 women commonly detect a identify to relax together with verbalize almost what they’re going to practise the next week. They’re also working on a TV version of their demo for Kentucky Educational Television (KET). You tin lookout it today on KETKy at 3:07pm.
Transitioning into the weekend, when the footing nether her feet is concrete rather than earth, way changing into her “city shoes.” Maggie prefers flats but is non averse to sturdy heels or wedges equally long equally they’re comfortable. She trots these out when grabbing dinner inward NuLu amongst her husband, visiting friends for potlucks, spending fourth dimension amongst family, or coming together her woman rear to walk to a greater extent than or less the Douglass Loop or St. Matthew’s farmers markets, a favorite Sabbatum forenoon tradition.
Weekends also hateful getting to remain upwardly a picayune later on to lookout a film amongst her husband, going to events for organizations Maggie is involved amongst — she’s a board fellow member of Dare to Care Food Bank together with Slow Food Bluegrass — or doing alive cooking shows amongst Lindsey at diverse venues inward the city. It’s a total schedule, but Maggie loves to juggle. Being flexible is only i of the many things she’s learned from working on the farm. Sumber http://www.todayswomannow.com/
By Yelena Sapin
Maggie Keith’s connecter to the province is inward her blood. She grew upwardly visiting her grandparents on the family’s Foxhollow Farm inward Crestwood, Kentucky, which she at nowadays runs amongst her woman rear equally third- together with fourth-generation stewards of the land. When she’s non taking tending of business, the self-described farm daughter works the garden for her 10-person CSA (community-supported agriculture) network together with tends to the farm’s 2.5-acre pumpkin patch. Gardening is her passion, but Maggie also loves the urban perks of living inward downtown Louisville amongst her hubby Benton. The Keiths are growing their family, also — their babe is due inward the fall, presently after Maggie puts her garden to bed for the winter. In the meantime, this city-dwelling farm daughter takes us along for a walk inward some of the shoes she wears throughout the week.
Her Gardening Shoes
Tuesdays together with Wednesdays are Maggie’s garden days. She’s upwardly at 5:30am to practise yoga (via YouTube) together with meditate or reverberate on the hateful solar daytime ahead. Breakfast is farm-fresh eggs or oatmeal together with seasonal fruit, or a smoothie made from her stash of fruit frozen when inward season.
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| Maggie is on the farm at the Veggie Shack where they launder together with store their produce. Photos past times Sunni Wigginton |
Maggie gets to the farm to a greater extent than or less 6:30 together with spends a tranquillity sixty minutes checking on things together with enjoying lonely fourth dimension inward the garden earlier her 2 intern assistants arrive. She wears her Oliberté operate shoes when she gardens, or Chaco sandals if she’s non using whatsoever tools that mightiness hold upwardly unsafe to unprotected toes.
Midweek afternoons Maggie takes the morning’s harvest to the Norton Commons farmers market, where she loves to interact amongst people at the Foxhollow Farm stand, hence returns to the farm to unload her empty coolers. The farming days current of air downward i time all the operate is done or it gets dark, together with Maggie goes identify for dinner amongst her hubby together with an eve walk through Waterfront Park amongst their King Charles Spaniel named Oscar together with Maltipoo named Pickles. By 10pm she’s ready to plough in.
Barefoot inward the Office
Mondays, Thursdays, together with Fridays are Maggie’s days to accept tending of the describe of piece of employment organisation side of farming. She gets upwardly at her usual 5:30am together with arrives at the Foxhollow Farm role straightaway from an early on forenoon Pilates class. The days are hence devoted to coming together amongst staff, working on marketing, events, together with community relations, together with brainstorming amongst her creative team.
As on the other days, luncheon is commonly the farm’s ain beef that Maggie prepares at identify together with brings to work, accompanied past times the garden’s fresh bounty of the day. She ever takes an hour-long luncheon intermission together with encourages everyone else to practise the same, whether it involves socializing amongst coworkers, reading, or taking a walk through the woods that flank the farm.
The garden is never far from Maggie’s mind, however. She keeps a diversity of shoes inward her role hence she tin become out together with banking enterprise jibe on the plants throughout the hateful solar daytime inward whatsoever form of weather. When dorsum at her desk, she kicks off the dirtied shoes together with works barefoot.
Her City Shoes
Mondays together with Thursdays Maggie leaves the role a picayune after 6pm — what she considers early on — to run into at a Heine Brothers java store amongst a adult woman who’s instruction her Spanish. Fri afternoons she makes her way to the Crescent Hill Radio station to tape progressive patio dinner together with her cracking hot chicken recipe). After recording, the 2 women commonly detect a identify to relax together with verbalize almost what they’re going to practise the next week. They’re also working on a TV version of their demo for Kentucky Educational Television (KET). You tin lookout it today on KETKy at 3:07pm.
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| Maggie together with her colleague Lindsey McClave. Photo by: Molly Dunigan |
Transitioning into the weekend, when the footing nether her feet is concrete rather than earth, way changing into her “city shoes.” Maggie prefers flats but is non averse to sturdy heels or wedges equally long equally they’re comfortable. She trots these out when grabbing dinner inward NuLu amongst her husband, visiting friends for potlucks, spending fourth dimension amongst family, or coming together her woman rear to walk to a greater extent than or less the Douglass Loop or St. Matthew’s farmers markets, a favorite Sabbatum forenoon tradition.
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| When Maggie needs a intermission from the garden, she sits inward this cowhide chair located at the Foxhollow Farms office. |
Weekends also hateful getting to remain upwardly a picayune later on to lookout a film amongst her husband, going to events for organizations Maggie is involved amongst — she’s a board fellow member of Dare to Care Food Bank together with Slow Food Bluegrass — or doing alive cooking shows amongst Lindsey at diverse venues inward the city. It’s a total schedule, but Maggie loves to juggle. Being flexible is only i of the many things she’s learned from working on the farm. Sumber http://www.todayswomannow.com/