Buckn' A's Ranch

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We never thought we'd leave Arizona. Then we found this.

Brady and Annette Anthony met in high school and got married in 1992 — a long time before either of us imagined we'd end up here: 46 acres tucked into the Daniel Boone National Forest, with three-quarters of a mile of riverfront along the Kentucky River, in a town of 2,800 people.

We came from a city of over half a million. Traffic, noise, concrete as far as you could see. It was a good life. But somewhere along the way we started dreaming about a different one — animals, a garden, room to actually breathe. We figured that dream was a "someday" thing.

Then we found this land, and someday stopped being a someday. In March of 2024, we sold the house, packed up, and never looked back. These days our soundtrack is lightning bugs, frogs, and birdsong instead of traffic — and we wouldn't trade it for anything.

It's just the two of us out here, which means everything we do, we're doing for the first time. That's the part we didn't expect to love as much as we do. Growing our first garden. Raising our first chickens. Learning our cattle, one by one. Figuring out how to render tallow into something worth putting on your skin. Turning tomatoes from our own garden into spaghetti sauce, and making pasta from scratch to go under it. We're not experts. We're two people saying yes to a lot of firsts — and it turns out that's most of the fun.

Forty-six acres, tucked inside the Daniel Boone National Forest, with three-quarters of a mile of frontage along the Kentucky River. It's more room than we ever imagined having — pasture for the cattle, space for the chickens to roam, a garden that keeps growing every season, and a stretch of river that reminds us daily why we made this leap. Some mornings the fog sits low over the water before the cattle even stir. It's the kind of land that makes you slow down, whether you planned to or not.