In 2000, she realized her lifelong dream of owning her own farm when she and Becky bought Lake Cavanaugh Farm.

Martha was brought up on a Kentucky farm about eight miles outside Frankfort, the state capital. While her older sister and two older brothers were lined up with Scouting, music lessons and other organized activities, Martha spent her time on neighboring farms making hay, growing tobacco and artificially inseminating beef cattle.

But Martha, 50, also played French horn, viola and a little piano when she was in high school. To this day, she loves to go to the symphony, where Beethoven, Mahler and Shostakovich are favorites.

Martha earned a bachelor's degree in agronomy (crops and soils) at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and a master's degree there in crop science in 1981.

She came to Seattle in 1984 to take a job with the Washington Cooperative Extension Service as a small farm adviser to some Hmong and Mien refugees in Woodinville. That sparked an interest in cultural issues and international agriculture, and Martha applied to the Peace Corps.

Martha was sent to a small Ecuadoran town in the southern Andes at about 9000 feet elevation, working on a project to increase agricultural production by adding trees to farmland. She also taught school children about organic gardening.

Living in a duplex with no heat, she found the nights cold. She tolerated but never grew to love the local delicacy of guinea pig.

"My Ecuador experience really changed me," says Martha. It gave her a deep appreciation for the limits on the world's resources and the imbalance in resources between the United States and other places in the world like Ecuador. She also came to appreciate "the value of people working together, because that's how things get done in Ecuador."

After returning to Seattle, Martha worked several years as an environmental educator for King County's land use planning department. She then worked for a number of years in the City of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods as a community garden coordinator.

Martha says of Goodlett's Farmlett and Lake Cavanaugh Farm: "This is what I have wanted to do for as long as I can remember. I was driving a tractor when I was five years old."

One would think that running the farm, holding down a day job, and taking in the cultural scene would fill more than enough hours of the day. But, no, Martha arises before 6 a.m. most days of the week to run at Seward Park in Seattle or row with the Conibear Rowing Club, a competitive women's master's rowing group based at the Mount Baker Rowing Center.

Though the girl has been taken out of Kentucky, she still harbors a lot of Kentucky within.

"Basically, the economy of Kentucky is whiskey, tobacco, horse racing and strip mining," says Martha. Why the output of her farm is so wholesome is something of a mystery.

Becky spent the first 13 years of her life in a house surrounded by woods in Ridgefield, Connecticut, an historic New England town. Her father, a stockbroker, commuted to Wall Street. Her mother was an elementary school teacher.

But Becky doesn't have to reach far to discover some roots in the good earth.

Becky's grandparents lived on a 100-acre farm on the Maine coast, where they raised Belted Galloway cows. "Our family would visit every summer and I adored the fields, the barns, the cows and the smells," says Becky.

When she was about 8, her parents bought a weekend farm in Vermont.

Becky's father tired of the rat race and moved the family to the Denver suburbs when Becky was 13. There, the family had a stable and corral where a neighbor boarded a horse. "All of the girls in the neighborhood would meet after school in a nearby field and ride."

While Becky was studying European history and philosophy at Cornell College in Iowa, her parents retired to a 100-acre farm high on a mesa in Delta, Colorado, with a view below of miles and miles of green, irrigated fields. The place had a large vegetable garden, chickens and fruit trees.

After college, Becky did community development work in Arkansas for four years. She visited her brother in Seattle and fell and fell in love with the city at first sight.

She did marketing for Brittania Sportsware and Viacom Cablevision. She promoted Bumbershoot '85 and the Pike Place Market "Help Pave the Market Arcade Project." Later, she was a development manager for Swedish Hospital Medical Center Foundation. She was major gifts director for Bastyr University.

She has been a free lance fund-raising consultant, working with such organizations as the Girl Scouts, O'Dea High School, Nikkei Concerns, and the Seattle Public Library.

Becky, 54, who is known for being an enthusiastic, community-oriented, and nurturing person, met Martha at the Conibear Rowing Club, where they both still row.

Becky got acquainted with subscription farming by helping out at Goodlett's Farmlett for five years.

At Lake Cavanaugh Farm, Becky says, "I am the sidekick for Martha on vegetable production, greenhouse caretaker, weeder extraordinaire, transplanter, harvester -- you name it." Becky is taking the lead on flower-production. She is the cook, major guest greeter, and is in charge of subscriber relations and volunteer coordination.

She has found herself gravitating toward "cleaning up" the land to make it more garden-like. She envisions creating paths through the woods, replacing the invasive blackberries with more native plants, perhaps restoring wetlands. She loves the rolling landscape, woods, pond, mountain, the historic cabins and artifacts at the farm.

"There is so much for the eye to see. I could sit and stare at it for hours."