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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I have around three weeks left of my "day job" in tech before I take the big leap, this time with Simon by my side, and become a full-time farmer.
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It came back as being Grade One - highest quality! Whooohoo! California-grown saffron ranks up-there with the best saffron in the world. Here is a short article by the International Organization for Standards, whose standards our saffron was measured with, about...
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