wo we are

With the help of family and friends the experiment in living continues to grow and evolve. From their pottery and woodturning studios Paul and Tricia have produced beautiful and highly prized works of art for years. Paul enjoys the inherent beauty of burls and spalted wood. He is a founding member of the American Woodturners Association and a member of the Kentucky Arts and Craft Guild. His has work in the permanent collections several museums such as, Mitchell Museum, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, American Craft Museum, and Dr. Toyota of the Toyota Corporation. Tricia loves to make functional stoneware pottery that is useful and beautiful. She likes to woodfire some of her work and decorate some pieces with Chinese brushwork. Both Paul and Tricia offer workshops and private lessons and share their expertise as teachers. Tricia has an ongoing pottery class weekly. A sales gallery, which visitors enter through a lush greenhouse of ferns and orchids, contains their own work and the brushwork of Tracie Griffith Tso.

Paul and Tricia Ferrell moved to Western Kentucky in the spring of 1974. They married and soon bought 100 acres of hills and hollers known as “no man’s land” by the locals. Next, they cleared a homestead planted an orchard and began construction on a passive solar home. Their lifetime adventure began. Thirty years later they are happily nestled among the oaks and pines at Brushy Fork Creek, enjoying the fruits of their labor. Their two children Katrina and Nathan are now grown and pursuing lives of their own.

Behind the studios next to the bamboo grove is the Garden of Life Spa. Tricia, a licensed massage therapist, offers a variety of treatments to enhance the individual’s wellbeing. Visitors are pamperedwith massage, myofascial release, myoskeletal alignment techniques, and trigger point therapy for chronic pain, energy balancing and cellulite reduction using the GX-99.

In addition to the orchards and organic vegetable production, Brushy Fork Creek offers the self-sufficient nature lover an opportunity to pick from their bountiful organic blueberry bushes during June and July.

Paul and Tricia also indulge in other interesting activities. Paul enjoys rebuilding motorcycles in his shop. He has just finished a complete custom job on a 1994 Sportster. His current project is a 1931 Chevy sedan hot rod.

Tricia has turned her love of horses into a professional Arabian breeding operation. A distinguished Arabian horse family grazes the gently rolling hills of Brushy Fork Creek. BFC Arabians is an Arabian Discovery Farm for the Arabian Horse Association. Recently, the Ferrell’s completed construction on a covered riding arena so training can go on year round. We also have a small herd of minis- just for fun!

Yes, Paul and Tricia are very busy but they enjoy every moment of it and welcome visitors to come and experience their ‘world’. They host an Open House twice a year on Thanksgiving weekend and the middle of April. On these occasions the Bravard Winery and Vineyard offers wine tasting and there are guest artists in the Spring. There are kiln opening parties with live music whenever the woodfire kiln is fired. Visitors are welcome to drop by year round.