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A Favor to Ask
Many years ago, my family took a trip to Ghana. When we were en route and on a layover in the UK, the airport staff realized that we didn’t have the visa required to continue to our final destination, and we were forced to take an unplanned 3 day pit-stop in London....
Special Delivery
We got the phone call this week. It came just after sunrise as we were coming home from our morning walk. “I bet it’s the turkeys!” I said. Greg nodded and with a little smirk on his face, he picked up the phone. I could hear Terry, the postal service worker, trying...
Stumped
When we meet new people and they find out that we're organic livestock farmers, there's often a look of intrigue that's closely followed by a little confusion. Farming isn't a particularly common career path. So, we expect follow up questions. Like "What do you grow?"...
The scariest thing we do.
If I had to to describe our relationship status with vacation, I’d say, “it’s complicated." It’s not that we don’t like vacations or want a vacation. It’s just that getting away from the farm is a challenge. One of the first hurdles is finding a farm sitter - someone...
Trouble on the Farm
Our pigs are on pasture and munching on grasses and legumes all the time, but they always (and I do mean always) come barreling out of the woods when they hear us walking down the path to give them their daily ration of grain each day. One evening last week, we...
Ready for the second wave
We've spent some time this week thinking about how we'll adapt and adjust during this next phase of COVID-19. We aren't stressing about it. But, we do think about it. And we do talk about it. Not because we're trying to torture ourselves or each other. But because...
Part IV: How the goose won the lottery
Eventually, I started to get the feeling that we were in over our heads. It started the day I went over to our neighbor's house for a chat and the goose trotted behind me, crossing the road and following me up the driveway to their front door. A few days later, I got...
Part III: The Duel
Do you remember where we left off with our goose story? Click HERE for the recap! I'm not sure how to tell you this. Lord knows we don't need another sad thing to think about right now. But, it happened the day, or rather the night, after the female goose FINALLY sat...
Part II: The Heist
Do you remember where we left off with our goose story last week? Click HERE for a refresher on Part I.... I've stolen things before. When I was a little girl, I stole candy from the grocery store by putting handfuls upon handfuls of tootsie rolls and lollipops down...
It’s Goose Month, Baby!
We are intentional about keeping our political views separate from the farm, and I promise to continue to do this as best as I can going forward. But I don't know how to share this week without saying this first... We have witnessed injustice and we are, as a greater...
Oh, how things have changed.
Greg was heading out to pick up a tractor part earlier this week and as he was walking out the door, I asked if I could come along. He looked back at me a little confused and asked, "Really?" I quickly realized how absurd it was that a drive to the welder's (in the...
A Mental Boost
This is the list I made this week after I realized how much a drive to the welder (of all things!) lifted my spirits. Please comment below and share what’s been helping you snap out of the COVID blues. Let’s keep this list handy so that we remind ourselves of all the...
Saying goodbye
Have you ever been at one of those big forks in the road and wondered how the heck you're ever going to make the decision to go right or left? We hit a big fork like this recently. It was back in March when COVID was just becoming our reality. The farmers market we've...
A hard nut to crack
We've been meditating on this one organic farming principle a lot over the past few years. And while it may not seem like the most interesting newsletter topic, it's about as important as important it gets. So, here it goes. In order to grow really exceptional food,...
How I popped the question
A dear friend of ours just recently got engaged. It happened on a hilltop in sunny California, beneath an old oak tree and beside a labyrinth rock garden. Through Zoom, I could see the big smile on her face as she told me about the bright future they're building...