As the full-time farm manager, most of my time is taken up by maintaining the goat herd, the Fjord horses, sugaring, producing and picking blueberries, and keeping up the grounds of the farmhouse and the five vacation rental units.

In my "spare time", I am currently Chair of the Charlemont Historical Commission, and have been very active in a long term effort to conserve the Bissell Bridge, the last covered bridge in town. The bridge, deemed eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places was slated for demolition by the Massachusetts Highway department. While MassHighway had indicated that they were willing to build a new covered bridge, there were many if us who felt that this would be another step in the Disneyfication of America, and would prefer that the actual historic bridge be rehabilitated so as to carry modern loads. After many years of fighting to save the bridge, in June of 2003 the Board of Selectmen agreed to ask again for the bridge to be rehabilitated. To the great satisfaction of many local folks, and to the surprise of many, the Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, Dan Grabauskas and the Commissioner of MassHighway, John Cogliano AGREED. Subsequent to this, MassHighway hired a very capable engineering firm, Fay, Spofford and Thorndike, to complete another structural analysis and design a plan for rehabilitation. As the supporters of rehabilitation had been saying all along, it did prove feasible to rehabilitate the bridge to carry modern loads without destroying it.