Kim Coffey

Growing up in the 70s on the Forest Family Farm, among fertile fields, hardwood and the Great Lakes of Northern Michigan was the ideal home for a family of twelve (yes, an even dozen) on an organic dairy farm established in 1922. The apple and pear orchards were plentiful, Holstein cows rich with organic cream and milk, and the rolling fields thick with stalks of oats and corn that was knee-high by the 4th of July. Life was seasonally rhythmic, simplistic and down-to-earth hard work. As a result, Mother Nature's wisdom and family values has sustained Kim's integrity: separate the essential from the non-essential - keep it simple.

Kim grew up in the best of worlds; conscious-living in farming, coupled with social responsibilities dedicated to her home village of Baraga. Kim participated along side her mom, June Forest who was a social activist and county commissioner that championed for senior citizens, children and the land itself. Her parents, Bob and June Forest instilled within their ten children a reverence for all creation and an active belief: purpose before self.

The integrity of her family's commitment and dedication to the land and community, still stand clear: if the idea is "ideal"... commit.

Kim and her husband Dan have homebirthed their three beautiful children, and have homeschooled in a lifeway of head, heart and hands for seven years. Presently, the children take their fresh organic lunches to school daily, which was the inspiration of The Farmer's Daughter, and a simple belief that every person has the right to reclaim what is natural -- a healthy body and a healthy planet. With her core values and naked insight, founding The Farmer's Daughter was inherent before green was chic.

Kim lives with her family, a sweet English Springer Spaniel, and two kitties, in their home away from home built in 1936.