What makes you say YES to those hard things in the life? To overcome the doubt and jump in head first, trusting that when (not IF) the going gets tough, a big wave or something of equal might, will catch you and carry you forward? This is what taking that leap of...
I connected with a farmer in western Canada who was having challenges with a new litter of piglets recently. Essentially, due to some extremely cold weather and the unanticipated nature of their arrival (she wasn’t sure when the piglets were due!), things went...
This little known fact seems to surprise just about everyone we meet, but the land on which we farm and the house in which we live were entirely separate entities before we moved in. It’s true! They were different parcels that just so happened to be up for sale...
Our biggest regret of 2021 was what we so lovingly called, The Piglet Explosion. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about here, let me jog your memory… Typically we have just 1-2 sows delivering piglets each month. But around this time last year, we realized...
Sometimes I joke about how Greg made a total 180° change when he decided to become a farmer. But in actuality, farming isn’t that different from chemistry after all. The major differences are just that instead of running a series of 1 minute long experiments in a...
