Jillie Uhler

​We are Dane, Jillie, Sebastian and Rowan. We are often known by people around us as the weird family that keeps taking off from a comfortable life in Maui or Santa Barbara to live in foreign countries, often in the middle of the countryside on farms, and often in not so comfortable dwellings like a hot van or a canvas tent. As a couple, Dane and I have always been undeniably in love with a rural and traditional life... think shepherds, cheese makers, ancient olive groves, hearing the history about the land, cooking over a fire, singing ballads about old growth forests... that kind of thing. So this often led us to Europe, especially because Dane was raised in Portugal, but also because vibrant festivals and tradition and all the best foods live there. It also meant that we chose to make our home for a few years in old stone cottages in the mountains of Northern Spain in Asturias as well as deciding to give birth to our first born in the quiet countryside of interior Portugal.