Life on Peace and Plenty Farm
I gave a presentation recently (virtual) to a group of women leaders in agriculture and did a quick version of the story of how I became a farmer. It’s a path I have mapped in various interviews and I have always given the short, sound-bite version but I was thinking about that journey more deeply and thought I would share it.
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At the beginning of February, I was feeling stressed and harried - so much to do in the next months and so many deadlines to meet. The weather was unseasonably warm and sunny and it felt like summer had arrived, skipping completely over spring. I wrote about my longing for a longer winter, and desire for more time to be quiet, slow, and do behind-the-scenes prep for all the big things that were coming our way in 2020. If the adage, “Careful What You Wish For” could be any more true than now, I don’t know when.
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You know what it is like to watch a seed germinate and get its first real leaves and then grow into a little mini plant...its pure magic watching the seed gather up the strength from the sun, soil, and water to burst out of its protective casing and emerge out of the soil.
It's almost 9 and we haven't had dinner yet. We do this often, work till after dark, then stumble in to the kitchen, dirty and tired and so very hungry. To get everything done that we feel we need to...
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