“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.”
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"My favorite thing to do sometimes is simply escape. Just walking to the barn to sit quietly with our sweet farm animals, or dropping what I'm doing to take a walk into the deep woods. It's a reset. All I have to do is just walk outside to discover something new and special." |
Valerie Parker is the owner of Sweet Meadows Farm, a humming little regenerative homestead that calls its home in Northern Vermont. She and her daughter Hannah manage a very spoiled crew of ADGA registered Nigerian Dwarf goats, various other critters and rescue cats. In addition to the day to day of running a farm, she is a published writer and has her own independent publishing company In the Meadow Books. In her free time, she spends as much time as possible at her church, taking photos, writing poetry, and studying/writing about traditional foods, natural medicine and regenerative farming. She just launched a new plants nursery and education center in South Burlington called Sowing Seeds, and she can't wait to see how God will bless their endeavor!
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Hannah Parker is 18 years old. She grew up on an organic permaculture farm in Northern Vermont and did remote school almost all the way through her schooling years. She started becoming serious about her passion with photography at age 9 with her first Nikon camera. She worked a lot with animal rescue in both middle and high school, was inducted into NHS as a sophomore and graduated with high honors in 2022. She won four covers of Stone Soup Magazine and was published numerous times before aging out at age 13. She also won statewide photo contests as well. Since high school, she has been focusing on her Vermont based photography business Hannah Parker Photography. You can find more of her work on her website at www.hannahparkerphotography.com.
"I have had a camera in my hands for as long as I can remember. I got my first "real" camera at the age of nine, and my mom taught me how to use it. We spent a lot of time just going out to sit quietly in nature and watching it unfold in front of me. I began venturing out on my own, starting with taking photos of our goats and other farm animals, then moving into landscapes and nature. Getting into macro photography was one of my favorite discoveries when I learned how to take photos of snowflakes!" 
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