Meet your farmers.

I’m Lizzie!


Lizzie is an adventuring soul who has spent decades learning and cultivating a unqiue skill set for creating a sense of home no matter where she is. She has lived and travelled throughout the US and abroad for most of her life, soaking in the richness of different cultures, foods, and ways of life, while simultaneously embracing the beauty of planting roots, creating home, and returning to a simpler, quieter way of living.

She has worked on traditional wooden sailboats throughout New England as a deckhand and an assistant cook before moving on to teaching elementary school for nearly a decade. Once she became a mother, she transformed her classroom teaching skills into guiding others through yoga and meditation practices. Before leaving Connecticut, she owned a small boutique yoga studio/ healing space that specialized in motherhood support.

She values slow living, being outside and in rhythm with the land, the environment, family, following her intuition, feminism and equality, movement/ exercise, and deep, meaningful connections.

When she’s not chasing around their young lassies or helping run the farm, you can often find her elbow deep in sourdough baking, farm projects, growing and creating beauty, exploring outside, or laughing over a coffee with friends.

I’m Tom!


Tom is an adventuring, magnetic soul who has an ever present twinkle in his eye and an affinity for collecting life long friends, stories, and stamps on his passport. He always carries a little bit of magic like a true Scotsman.

His family has had deep roots in the North Country for generations, working in land management, forestry, and the paper mill industry.

He’s deeply passionate about the environment and is on a mission to make it a better place through his CT-based solar & NH/VT-based land management companies. Sustainability & low carbon living is a value of ours and deeply embedded in everything we do at Root to Rise.

When he’s not building forts and playing endless imaginary games with the girls or dreaming up some way to improve the farm, he’s a surfer, sailor, snowboarder, mountain biker, hiker, & adventurer.

Together, we believe that life is a massive, beautiful, whirlwind adventure for the taking and we are excited to have you join us as we breathe life back into our historic farm.

I’m Mac!


Meet Mac, our Australian Shepherd puppy. He is just as much a farmer as Tom or Lizzie, as he is in training to help herd the cattle.

His role on the farm, besides giving everyone he meets lots of love, joy and excited shakes of his little rump, will be really pivotal in helping Lizzie and Tom move the cattle safely to different pastures and manage cattle groupings with as little stress to the animals as possible.

Mac is very smart and intuitive, already building trust, respect, and symbiotic relationships with each of the cattle in our fold.