ABOUT US

Welcome Everyone to our Farm’s Website.

We are Chris and Danielle Bove.

Both of us are natives of Maryland. Chris grew up in Bay Ridge, a community on the Chesapeake Bay and Severn River in Annapolis-- Maryland’s state capital and the Home of the U.S. Naval Academy. He received his bachelor's degree from Mount Saint Mary's College in Emmitsburg, MD and later attended graduate school at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Danielle spent her childhood in and around Baltimore, with a brief stint in Florida with her Mom, and later she returned to Maryland and called Pasadena home. She attended Essex Community College and Chesapeake College.

We met in 1999 and started dating in December of that year.

A couple of years later while visiting New Orleans, Louisiana for the Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival (a perennial trip for Chris), Chris popped the question in a popular French Quarter eatery (Mr. B’s Bistro), Danielle said “Yes!” and we were married in May of 2004. We moved from Annapolis to Maryland’s Eastern Shore in September of 2001. We bought a small farm (the real estate company called it a mini-estate!) and we’ve been enjoying the “simple life” ever since.

Chris, a master gardener since the age of eight, thanks to the influence of two talented and knowledgeable great-grandfathers, took to the farm and began in our first year to plant a small 40’x60’ vegetable garden. Seven years later, the garden is nearly ¾ of an acre, and he has grown up to 17 varieties of tomatoes, along with over a dozen varieties of peppers, sweet corn, salad greens, asparagus, squashes, melons, beans, cucumbers, herbs and the list goes on and on. The garden is fertilized with manure from our horses, goats, and poultry-- and as such does not rely upon chemical fertilizers. Once the garden's produce is ready for the table, Chris also demonstrates his culinary prowess in the kitchen preparing sumptuous and seasonally inspired meals for friends and family alike. He learned the "art" of cooking around the age of eight with the help of his Italian great-grandmother, and learned the "science" of baking from his mother. He has worked in nearly a dozen restaurants over the years. In addition to taking to gardening and cooking, he enjoyed countless hours with his father on the Chesapeake Bay fishing, crabbing, boating and water skiing. When time permits, Chris enjoys designing and assembling stained glass windows and art glass projects, playing the piano, and sitting behind his drum set. He also enjoys buying "fixer-upper" properties and rehabilitating them.

Danielle, a big time animal lover since her early youth, had her sights set on raising domestic and farm animals on the property. She adopted a few dogs, some cats, gained a quarter horse, (then another), and eventually we’ve had everything from horses, hogs, and goats, to bunnies, peafowl, chickens and turkeys. She has even rehabilitated wildlife back to health after injury or separation from parents and successfully reintroduced them into the wild. Danielle was inspired to investigate Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats, and eventually made the choice to sell our pygmy and boer goats so that we could concentrate solely on the Nigerian Dwarf breed. She enjoys caring for all our animals, making homemade soaps and candles, as well as riding her horse, Twig.

Chris and Danielle formerly operated a small, popular restaurant and country store in Sudlersville, Maryland. Danielle is a Certified Veterinarian Assistant at a Kent Island, Maryland Veterinarian Office where she also serves as office manager. She has worked in the Veterinary field for more than seven years and oversees the health care of all of our critters. We are also Authorized Distributors for the Udderly EZ Milker and numerous other livestock equipment through Stone Manufacturing, Inc. Chris manages the farm, as well as our investment rental properties. We are both Certified Open Water Scuba Divers and enjoy diving when we can pull ourselves away from the farm. (We are working on a web page for our website that will highlight our involvement in Scuba Diving, seek to educate our website's visitors about the current problems that are facing our planet's oceans and undersea environments, and most importantly offer advice on how everyone can make a difference in the recovery of these crucial habitats.)

Finally, Chris has spent months researching and is currently writing a book on the history and herdbook of the Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goat Breed.