Patina Living

This is the heartwarming story of the how the Giannettis live with their beloved, photogenic animals at Patina Farm. Follow them through their day, caring for the animals, harvesting from the vegetable and flower gardens, bringing beauty into their home and enjoying the purposeful, meditative qualities of living with nature.

Brooke and Steve live and entertain in their self-designed, Euro-style estate amid lushly planted gardens and well-designed animals quarters that include architect-designed outbuildings. From the introduction: "We wrote this book to share why we decided to create this life and what we have learned along the way. We share how we decided where to live, how to design and lay out our property and how to think about the individual spaces. One of the main nuggets of wisdom that we have learned is that there is not only one way to live this life. We hope this book will give our readers some new options for their own lives."