About Us · Trumansburg · Finger Lakes
We live here.
It shows.
We're Shona and Lex — Superhosts for over a decade, restorers of old buildings, and the people who'll actually answer when you write.
The Two of Us
Healers by trade, hosts by calling.
Lex is a mental health therapist at Cornell and a proud native of Ithaca — this is genuinely home. Shona studied physical therapy at Ithaca College and built her practice around women's health. Between us, our work has always been about caring for people; hospitality turned out to be the same work with better views. And then there are our little ones, Gordie and Alba, growing up between the farmhouse and the pines.
Life has taken us around the world — Spain, New Zealand, Romania — and everywhere we lived taught us something about what makes a place feel like more than a room: yoga in the morning, honest food, time outdoors, and hosts who treat you like a person. We brought all of it back here.
The Story
Our love story has an address.
We didn't just buy these buildings — we lived in them. The Farm Manor was our home; our son was born while we lived within its walls; and when we married, we married right here on this land, under our own trees. That photo isn't a stock image. It's our wedding day, in front of our barn.
Every rental here is an extension of that home. The farmhouse, the barn, the tents in the pines, the village houses — including Baldwin Manor, the house we live in now, which we open to guests a handful of times a year when we travel. We restored each of them the way you fix up a place you love, because that's exactly what happened.
How We Host
Eleven years, one standard.
We've been Superhosts for over a decade, and our guests rate us 4.9 — not because we chase the number, but because we treat every guest the way we'd want to be treated arriving somewhere tired: a spotless place, honest information, local knowledge freely given, and hosts who answer quickly and mean it. Whether you're here for a quiet weekend, a family gathering, or a full-property retreat, our aim is the same — that you leave feeling like this place was, briefly, yours. Because for those days, it was.
When we're not hosting or healing, you'll find us in the garden, on the trails, or deep in a book — Cloud Atlas, the poems of Hafiz, Ram Dass's Be Here Now. Come say hello; we're around.
Our Other Work
The healing work continues alongside the hosting: Shona's practice → · Lex's practice →
Come Stay
The porch lights are on.
A farmhouse, a barn, and a village studio year-round — tents in the pines in season — and two people who'll take good care of you while you stay.