Credit, or blame, adventurous parents who “lived full tilt.” By the time Greta Nicholas graduated from high school, she had hopscotched all over the world, from England to South Africa to Tortola, from Savannah to Palm Beach to Charlottesville (on two horse farms, by then one for each parent).
When it came to raising her own children, Nicholas—at the time a fine-art photographer, a stylist for fashion designer Vera Wang, and, improbably, an equestrian living in Brooklyn— did the polar opposite. Soon after the birth of her first daughter, Esme, in 2002, she literally bought the farm, putting down one deep and grounded root on her own horse farm in rural Woodstock.
First, Nicholas built a house on 20 acres. But “it lacked nostalgia,” she says, so she sold it…
