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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
