About Our Farm
From our team to our farm, learn more about what we do!
Our Team
Terry Keown (previously Conrad) was raised on a dairy farm in rural Indiana.
Milking 80-100 heads of cows twice daily, her family utilized sustainable practices in their herds, food production and farming management.
During a stint of unemployment, David Keown worked on the Conrad farm and gained experiences and practiced applications and knowledge learned at Purdue University.
In reflection, David will share of his time working the farm – that dad was a very focused hard-working farmer, but says the best deal for him was that he married the farmer’s daughter!
History of the Farm
Terry and David have remediated a run-down 15 acre farm to create Honey Tree Farm.
With forty years of marriage behind them, fast forward to impending retirement, the couple began to look for land to farm once again to return to their roots – humble farming.
After noticing auction signage along a nearby country road in the fall of 2015, they acquired a piece of history – the old Seed Farm, formally owned by Miller Levi. Immediately their feet hit the ground to clean up, re-gain valuable real estate through the cleaning of abandoned fence rows and brush piles, planted hundreds of trees, researching and planning as well the functionality of lay of the land.
The field has now been rectified, an orchard planted to grow berry, elderberry and grape patches, they have restored old barns and researched animal breeds for their quality meats, temperament and size in order to utilize the land well and grow quality stock.
Terry and David nurture and socialize their animals daily so that they are approachable and friendly. With farms dissolving and agricultural land re-zoned for residential and business across our great country, restoring a piece of Kentucky has been a passion of theirs. They believe that families need to understand where their food comes from and the magnificence of farm animals.
In looking back over the last 3-4 years, vast improvements have been made while the quaintness of an old farm is evident, yet re-purposing it has required a lot of tenacity and hard work.
The view of rolling hills, tree lines and overlooking a beautiful piece of Kentucky pasture poised with cattle (and donkeys) is a beautiful sight!