VICTORIA REDHED MILLER grew up in Seattle, in a family of eight children. She married her husband David in 2000, and in 2006, they moved to their off-grid homestead in the foothills of Washington State’s Olympic Mountains. The property had been bought by David’s grandparents in 1936, and moving there to live fulfilled one of his childhood dreams.
In 2007, they began raising heritage-breed chickens, joined in 2008 by turkeys and ducks. Within a year, they obtained an egg dealer’s license and have been selling chicken and duck eggs to a local restaurant and several retail stores ever since.
Both skilled do-it-yourselfers, Victoria and David designed and installed their solar electric system, and have plans for hydroelectric power as well. Victoria loves photography, reading, gardening, canning, meat curing and making beer and wine. Most recently, she has built a licensed microdistillery on their property.