“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 have had quite the menagerie of animals over the years, including a very spoiled crew of ADGA registered Nigerian Dwarf goats, Holland Lop bunnies, various other critters and a program to 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 works with traditional foods (a supporter of the Weston Price Foundation), studies natural medicine and is a DoTerra Wellness Advocate and a Banerji homeopathy student, and stays crazy busy working on regenerative farming and permaculture projects at her nursery. She also designs websites and does creative artistic work. She spends a lot of time at her local church where she helps with the kids ministry and is on the worship team. Her plants nursery and flower farm in South Burlington is called Sowing Seeds Nursery, and she just got her farm stand up at the road! She can't wait to see how God will bless their endeavor!
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Valerie's daughter Hannah is twenty 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 nine 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 with a full editorial spread written about her 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 storytelling cinematic work on Instagram at @hannahparkerphotography and also on her website at www.hannahparkerphotography.com.
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