 At Juniper Ledge she lived with her partner Mary Garret "Mollie" Hay, who lived in and tended the property.Despite her earlier judgement about the land being unsuitable for farming and her finding that the soil was thin and rocky, she and Hay included provisions for some farming among the improvements they made to the property.They improved the driveway and stream, graded the ledgetops, planted gardens and began raising some chickens and cows.