Meet the Team
We take great pride in providing our guests and vendors an outstanding experience, and provide a friendly, dedicated on-site team to support you.
We take great pride in providing our guests and vendors an outstanding experience, and provide a friendly, dedicated on-site team to support you.
It’s great to love what you do – especially when that includes making someone else’s day.
I truly believe it’s a “dream job” to save a piece of history and bring the beauty of the farm to countless others to appreciate.
I grew up working on my family’s large vegetable farm and followed multiple generations of family members attending Cornell University where my great grandfather taught Agricultural Engineering. While my degree is in business, I’ve always enjoyed taking hospitality related classes in Cornell’s famous school of hotel management, as well as teaching riding classes at the Cornell Equestrian Center.
During and after college I worked in Fortune 100 companies for years. While it was a great learning to lead groups of people and manage multi-million-dollar categories, I realized my passion was elsewhere…
“I cannot wait to share my love of this place with you.”
I’ve always loved travel and have found many excuses to go see the world and explore new sights, cultures and architecture, especially their barns. My sister and I had regularly traveled to Europe to further develop our riding in some of the oldest academies in the world. Whether riding under the grand chandeliers in Amsterdam, the old stone barns in Slovenia, or the gorgeous Mediterranean hillsides of Portugal, I’ve always appreciated the architecture of various barns and stables and wanted to bring a piece of that home. We have incorporated various aspects of the old European barns in the renovation designs.
I cannot wait to share my love of this place with you and to create so many more special memories. – LS
A friendly, dedicated team that handles the details — many of whom have been with us for years.
We are truly blessed to have a wonderfully supportive Dad, who loves his daughters and performed the majority of the work at the Sablewood using his wealth of talents.
A lifelong farmer of the Schoharie Valley, he ran Shaul Farms, a two thousand acre family vegetable farm for over 25 years. He is also a former President of NYS Vegetable Growers Association, and is well known in the Agricultural Industry for designing new equipment and sustainable methods to preserve the land for future generations.
Now retired from full-time farming, he continues to bale hay while restoring the Sablewood property. A true craftsman, his signature style of purposeful function married with beautiful aesthetics is present throughout the property in the custom lighting, barn doors, and furniture. He single-handedly completed the majority of the construction on the Charlington, our new white barn, which we named in his honor.
With a warm smile, a humble nature, and a dedication to his family, he loves to chat with guests and share stories of his latest projects, and delights in seeing guests enjoying the property.
We take great pride in providing our guests and vendors an outstanding experience, and provide a friendly, dedicated on-site team to support you. Our helpful team handles the furniture set up and break down, maintains the property, and many other details to make your day flow smoothly.
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