Bent Pines Farm was initially established by Gabe and Dorothy Becchinelli as a 20-acre homestead selling chickens. Not having children interested in the homesteading lifestyle, they gifted their home to a family friend with the provision that it remain a farm. Our logo is an homage to their legacy, replacing the chickens with the equine inspiration for much of what we do.

Our Why

Not long ago, co-owner Tanya Aimanovich was living a life of quiet desperation, weighing nearly 250 pounds and fighting cancer, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and depression while mourning the loss of her father to heart disease and her brother to cancer. Learning that in the early Jewish traditions, every table is an altar, she was inspired to heal her relationship to food and her body.  She lost 82lbs and became a health coach and used the same methods to help her husband and business partner to lose 40 pounds.

As a hunter, mechanic, and beekeeper, Matthew not only keeps everything running from the tractor to the plumbing, but he also provides humanely sourced meat for himself and the carnivorous animals on the farm. He tends to the orchard and clovers that feed the farms bees, his favorite livestock. Matthew also runs the farms glass blowing, gun smithing, and forge providing values supplies to the homestead. As a former law enforcement officer, he manages the farms security.