Reno to Retail: The Story of The Farm Home in Stowe, Vermont

Tyson and Lisa Bry with their daughter, Ingrid, at Farm Home Marketplace in Stowe, Vermont.

A vintage European pine desk displays mirrors, stationery, and ceramics from Kansas City, Missouri, and New York’s Hudson River Valley. The pottery holds dried florals grown at the Bry’s vacation rental, The Farm Home.

French basket pendant lights hang above a vintage Hungarian mulberry dining table topped with ceramic dinnerware from Sarah Kersten Studio.

A bed is layered with European linens designed to mix and match.

. In the kitchen area, a sideboard holds everything from cookbooks and hand-blown Moroccan glass tumblers to trivets, coasters, and baskets made by artists in Guatemala.

Your Instagram feed might have you convinced that everyone is renovating a farmhouse and documenting it for legions of followers, and Lisa and Tyson Bry’s fixer-upper foray (@thefarm home) started down that path—then it took a left turn.

The couple met at Syracuse University and reconnected in Boston after college—she’s from Bedford, Massachusetts, and he’s from Pomfret, Vermont. Tyson longed to return to the Green Mountain State, and in 2016, the couple found themselves in Stowe, falling for a run-down 1864 farmhouse with postcard views of the village.

Nearly three years and thousands of followers later, The Farm Home was born. Still dividing their time between Vermont and Boston, the Brys began renting the house when they weren’t using it. Guests inquired about the home’s furnishings and decor, so the couple, ever the entrepreneurs (Lisa started her own dance company after college, and Tyson worked as an engineer), launched a design/build firm in 2018.

“Ultimately, that shifted to a storefront,” explains Lisa, standing behind the counter of Farm Home Marketplace on Stowe’s idyllic Main Street. “We decided to close the interior design chapter to allow room for family and balance. It’s easier to lock the door at the end of the day and be present as a parent.” The shop opened in December 2020, and in March 2022, the couple welcomed their daughter, Ingrid.

Snug inside a 2,000-square-foot space in an 1839 building, shoppers find a level of sophistication they might not expect in a vacation destination. There are sofas custom-made in Paris and upholstered in Italian fabric along with vintage leather chairs from the Netherlands, linens from Lithuania and Portugal, and inkwells from England.

A garden area offers heirloom-worthy garden tools, terra-cotta pots weathered with moss, and sun hats. You can even purchase bundles of dried lavender grown at the vacation rental, which the couple still owns. Lisa sees the two businesses, which, combined, form Farm Home Co., as working to achieve the same goal.

“It’s so important to me to do my part in making life more joyful.”

Farm Home Marketplace, Stowe, Vt., farmhome.co