Some would call us crazy. Some have told us we work too hard. But I ask you, “What work is too hard when it feeds your body and fuels your soul?”
Upon emergence from our first winter torpor, we dug into farm life. If you follow Mother Earth News, GRIT Magazine, or any number of other homesteading-ish media, you would recognize that we committed nearly every sin known to new farmers and homesteaders. We took on more than we could chew. We poured our savings into our new life. We exhausted our energy. We tried to do it all.
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For us, the luxury of driving to the local grocery store to buy our eggs and milk is outmatched by our preference for the daily Easter Egg Hunt to retrieve fresh eggs and the 'splash-ping' sound of milk streaming into a metal milking bucket. Homemade yogurt and chevre from the freshest and sweetest milk cannot be beat. Veggies and fruit picked right off the vine and dug from the earth provide us the freshest and flavor-packed food available. The struggle to find life balance among family, friends, work, and the farm is real and ongoing; however, this lifestyle that I am describing to you is ours by choice. We are so thankful to have the opportunity To Grow a Farm!