Residents
There are five residents of Stone Bridge Farm: Lisa and Tricia split their time between Alexandria, VA, where they continue to teach and work at Virginia Theological Seminary, while Katie, Amy, and Lydia live and work at the farm year-round.
Amy
Meet our Resident Farmers
During March and April of 2024, two gifted, loving, faithful, brave, and hopeful women moved to Stone Bridge Farm to start a new life closer to nature, to planting and harvesting, to walking and resting, to learning and laughing.
Amy brings decades of nursing practice and mentoring. Lydia brings decades of experience as a professional chef.
We are so blessed that they have followed their gifts and a loving God to Stone Bridge Farm.
Lydia
Meet our
Resident Farm Administer
The Rev. Katie Hoyer grew up visiting this farm daily. Her grandparents and great-grandparents all lived here. Katie has tended this land and its multiple generations of family with care and joy. Currently a transitional deacon, Katie has come to live at Stone Bridge Farm and serve as our “Farm Administer” — a term we coined to reflect the irreducible sacred ministry of serving guests, planning programming, coordinating communication, forestry management, music and music formation, and building relationships with the community. Katie is a classically trained professional singer preparing for priesthood in the Episcopal Church.
Lisa
Tricia
Meet our Founding Farmers
Founding Farmers Lisa and Tricia have shared a wide range of feelings since first considering this leap of faith: excitement, fear, inspiration, panic, joy, and peace. But most of all, they feel utter gratitude for the resources to dare a farm, with God’s help! They dream to feed people with this farm’s food and bless people with holy spaces to pray, play, and rest. They dream of teaching as many as possible about healthy food and holy feasting, faithful stewardship of our bodies, and of the lands on which we all live.
The Rev. Dr. Tricia Lyons, Senior Lecturer at VTS and Senior Advisor to the Dean of VTS, has taught in the areas of systematic theology, ethics, liturgical theology, faith formation, and preaching at both Virginia Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School for over 25 years. Her joy and expertise is evangelism.
Lisa Kimball, Ph.D., has lead and taught widely in the Church, non-profit organizations, and higher education for over 40 years. She is a master teacher who has led retreats, clergy conferences, and diocesan conventions in over 30 dioceses. Lisa has a contagious passion for activating the power of baptism, especially among the laity. She believes in the universal priesthood of all believers and in forming disciples who know how to form disciples. Her doctoral work was in Human Development with a focus on adult learning. Lisa has written and received five multi-year grants over the last eight years from the Lilly Foundation Inc. Totaling more than 5 million dollars, these grants have focused on Confirmation, Baptism, Mutual Ministry, Faith Formation within Families, and Compelling Preaching. Lisa is currently Vice President for Lifelong Learning and the James Maxwell Professor of Lifelong Christian Formation at Virginia Theological Seminary.
life together
Although the residents of Stone Bridge Farm are still actively discerning the shape and scope of our life together — whether we formally draw up a Rule of Life as an intentional community or religious order, or remain housemates and neighbors working towards common goals — we are grateful and clear that God has called each of us to this place and this work, together.