More about Charlie
Charlie grew up on a small, diversified farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The farm supplied many crops, including tomatoes for the local cannery. As the youngest of six children, Charlie manned the two-acre tomato patch at 13- a good preparation for future work.
1968, Charlie left home for an education at Duke University, where he stayed for 10 years, receiving 3 degrees: BA in Religion, Master of Divinity, and Master of Theology in Pastoral Psychotherapy. Charlie became an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ in 1976and completed a two year residency in Pastoral Psychotherapy at Duke University Medical Center in 1978.
After the residency, Charlie and his wife, Miriam moved with their new baby, Heather, to Hampton, Virginia where Charlie worked as a pastoral counselor at the Peninsula Pastoral Counseling Center. In 1982, the Maloney family moved to Williamsburg where Charlie became the Executive Director of the Williamsburg Pastoral Counseling Services. He became a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and obtained his license as a Professional Counselor in Virginia.
Following his success in the pastoral counselling arena, Charlie and Miriam moved to King and Queen County where they began to set up their farm with Heather and their new son, Jason. Within a couple years, the Maloney family grew by two more children, Paul and Katie.
The family started a small CSA in 1991 with around 20 members and has gradually grown since then to a current membership of 180. As the CSA grew, the farm developed and Charlie gradually cut back on his pastoral counselling career. In 2001, he became a farmer full time.
2005 provided more opportunities for Charlie to expand his skill set; he was asked to teach a course in the Environmental Science and Policy department at the College of William and Mary. The Sustainability and Agriculture class was developed and has been taught by Charlie every spring semester through 2019. Along with the academic role, Charlie is active in the Virginia Association for Biological Farming and the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (Southern SAWG), and has served on the Board of Directors in both organizations.
Charlie was recently recognized as the 2016 Virginia Small Farmer of the Year! This is a nice honor for all the work Charlie and the Maloney family have accomplished over the last 32 years at Dayspring Farm.
1968, Charlie left home for an education at Duke University, where he stayed for 10 years, receiving 3 degrees: BA in Religion, Master of Divinity, and Master of Theology in Pastoral Psychotherapy. Charlie became an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ in 1976and completed a two year residency in Pastoral Psychotherapy at Duke University Medical Center in 1978.
After the residency, Charlie and his wife, Miriam moved with their new baby, Heather, to Hampton, Virginia where Charlie worked as a pastoral counselor at the Peninsula Pastoral Counseling Center. In 1982, the Maloney family moved to Williamsburg where Charlie became the Executive Director of the Williamsburg Pastoral Counseling Services. He became a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and obtained his license as a Professional Counselor in Virginia.
Following his success in the pastoral counselling arena, Charlie and Miriam moved to King and Queen County where they began to set up their farm with Heather and their new son, Jason. Within a couple years, the Maloney family grew by two more children, Paul and Katie.
The family started a small CSA in 1991 with around 20 members and has gradually grown since then to a current membership of 180. As the CSA grew, the farm developed and Charlie gradually cut back on his pastoral counselling career. In 2001, he became a farmer full time.
2005 provided more opportunities for Charlie to expand his skill set; he was asked to teach a course in the Environmental Science and Policy department at the College of William and Mary. The Sustainability and Agriculture class was developed and has been taught by Charlie every spring semester through 2019. Along with the academic role, Charlie is active in the Virginia Association for Biological Farming and the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (Southern SAWG), and has served on the Board of Directors in both organizations.
Charlie was recently recognized as the 2016 Virginia Small Farmer of the Year! This is a nice honor for all the work Charlie and the Maloney family have accomplished over the last 32 years at Dayspring Farm.
"A healthy farm culture can be based only upon familiarity and can grow only among people soundly established on the land; it nourishes and safeguards a human intelligence of the earth that no amount of technology can satisfactorily replace." - Wendell Berry
A Prayer in Spring - Robert Frost
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
To which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends he will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
To which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends he will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.
Miriam Maloney
Miriam grew up the oldest of two daughters of a Methodist Minister. After graduating college, Miriam and Charlie married and moved to Durham, North Carolina, where she also attended Duke Divinity School.
Prior to working full time on the farm Miriam worked a variety of jobs, most recently as an Early interventionist with the Rural Infant Services Program working with disabled children and their parents.
Now Miriam works full time with Charlie managing the farm. She particularly enjoys growing medicinal and culinary herbs sold to the local Restaurants.
Miriam cares for all the farm animals and especially the goats which she milks and makes wonderful goat cheeses for the farm lunches.
She also spends a lot of time canning, freezing, dehydrating, and pickling all the beautiful veggies for her family and friends.
Prior to working full time on the farm Miriam worked a variety of jobs, most recently as an Early interventionist with the Rural Infant Services Program working with disabled children and their parents.
Now Miriam works full time with Charlie managing the farm. She particularly enjoys growing medicinal and culinary herbs sold to the local Restaurants.
Miriam cares for all the farm animals and especially the goats which she milks and makes wonderful goat cheeses for the farm lunches.
She also spends a lot of time canning, freezing, dehydrating, and pickling all the beautiful veggies for her family and friends.
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Heather MaloneyHeather is Charlie and Miriam's first child. Ever since she was little she was interested in dance. She attended The University of Florida's New World School of the Arts where she received a BFA in Dance.
Now, Heather lives in Miami, Florida and makes her living as a Dancer, Coreographer, and Instructor. She also owns her own business called Inkub8 with her husband, Corey Silverman (Kor Media and Lighting). Inkub8 is an alternative studio and performance space. Heather and Corey have two children, Ella and Mylo, adding to the list of Charlie and Miriam's grandchildren! [email protected] http://www.inkub8.org/ 305-482-1621 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 2021 NW 1st Place Miami, Fl |
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Corey Silverman. A truely amazing lighting and sound guru! Owner of his own businiess Kor Media and Lighting!
Jason attended Brevard College in North Carolina, where he received his Bachelors Degree in Environmental Studies.
Jason now is a Class A Contractor, and owns his own business, Tall Pine Builder. They specialize in home renovations, barns, sheds, and additions. His first project when he came back to Virginia from living in Brevard was to build the huge beautiful barn at Dayspring! When not at work, one of his hobbies is playing the hand drums, and sometimes he plays at local restaurants! Jason and Amy now have a little boy named Liam Maloney! [email protected] http://www.tallpinebuilder.com/ 804-577-0205 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 804-577-0205 end_of_the_skype_highlighting 754 Syringa Rd. Topping, VA 23169 |
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Amy Wright MaloneyAmy is Jason's wife, and together they are working to restore an old 19th century farm house to live in with their son Liam (the Maloney's first Grandchild!) and a variety of pets! (Including Wilma, a pot-bellied pig that showed up at Dayspring Farm and was enjoying the vegetables!)
Amy Wright Maloney, (RYT 200HR) graduated from the College of Charleston in South Carolina in 2002 with a BA in Studio Art, and moved back to her native Middlesex County, VA. In October 2004 her love of travel soon brought her to take a job as a classroom English Assistant in Southern France where she discovered yoga. While laboring through the physical postures, Amy soon realized that yoga reaches far beyond the physical body. She fell in love with the challenge and the sensations of the practice. Continuing to dive into yoga once she returned to Middlesex, Amy began teaching a yoga class in July 2007. Loving and believing in the practice of yoga, sharing this with her students was the perfect fit. In March 2009, Amy completed the YogaWorks 200 hour teacher training program at Yoga Source in Richmond. She believes strongly in the importance of continued education and attends workshops and conferences, as well as, weekly classes, as often as she can. “Being a teacher does not replace being a student.” Amy integrates safe alignment, flow of movement, and connection to breath and the inner body. She encourages adapting postures to fit your own body so that you may be safe and challenged within your own borders. “Yoga is for everyone. All you need is the willingness to try.” Amy and her family at WAKEFOREST FARM also raise local GRASS FED BEEF which they sell locally. Please contact Amy at the following number if you are interested in ordering. 804-370-4856 Tri Yoga http://www.triyoganow.com/ |
LIAM MALONEY
The newest member of the Maloney Family! Jason and Amy had a son! The Maloney's have their first grand child! And guess what? He loves to ride a big green tractor with his daddy!
The newest member of the Maloney Family! Jason and Amy had a son! The Maloney's have their first grand child! And guess what? He loves to ride a big green tractor with his daddy!
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Paul MaloneySince Paul was young he loved to find out the way things worked by taking them apart and learning to put them back together. This was great training for becoming the farm's maintenance man! Paul maintaines all the machinery from tractors and trucks to gardenway carts and irrigation.
Paul attended J Sargeant Reynolds Community College, where he received his Associates degree in Automotive Technology. He works one day a week at upkeeping the farm. His current project is renovating the interns appartment in the barn with sheetrock and a tile floor! The other four days out of the work week he works for his brother, Jason with Tall Pine Builder. At home on the weekends he and his wife Jenny work on their first house! It is also a 19th century fixer upper so the Maloney guys have their hands full! |
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Jenny Cox MaloneyJenny is Paul's wife, and grew up on a farm in King William County enjoying the outdoors by boat and horseback.
She attended the University of Mary Washington for two years, then transferred to Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Craft and Material Studies with a concentration in Ceramics. While in college she also studied abroad at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy. She works at Dayspring Farm part time doing office work, upkeeping the website, harvesting and maintaining the veggies, and delivering produce to restaurants. She started her own flower farm last year! Wind Haven Farm is on it's way in Middlesex! She will be making the bouquets for the flower share, wholesaling flowers to grocery stores, CSA programs, florists, and floral wholesalers in Richmond! She hopes to one day have her own ceramics studio to be able to make pots in the winter months. |
Katie Maloney
Katie is the Maloney's youngest daughter.
She graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro North Carolina with a BFA in Ceramics.
She spent some time studying abroad and traveling across China, Tibet, and Nepal! She is currently making pottery for art shows and galleries in North Carolina and Virginia!
If you would like to see more of Katie's art work her website is www.katherinemaloney.org
Katie's other passion is horseback riding with her friend pictured here Shadow!
She graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro North Carolina with a BFA in Ceramics.
She spent some time studying abroad and traveling across China, Tibet, and Nepal! She is currently making pottery for art shows and galleries in North Carolina and Virginia!
If you would like to see more of Katie's art work her website is www.katherinemaloney.org
Katie's other passion is horseback riding with her friend pictured here Shadow!
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At Dayspring Farm we cherish our animals.
They are both pets and vital parts of our farm's daily life.
 The Barn Cats: Margaret Fell RIP and her sister  Toby, RIP Hands down the greatest dog we all could have ever asked for. |
Trueman RIP
 Anna |
 Chloe RIP  Shadow |
 Dasha  Fred |
