Hello Friends,
It’s a new year, a time for change, and for our family farm we have some BIG changes in store. We have always harbored dreams of slowly restoring our family farm to the viable, productive enterprise it once was. For many years, we lived among dust-choked machinery, silent cattle stalls, and a dormant granary. We missed that certain joie de vivre farm life produces.
When it seemed profitable to sell, rather than surrender our farm to those titans of subdivisions and shopping centers, we held firm. We finished other obligations such as nourishing our education, and working far away from home, and waited.
Somewhere along the way people began questioning the quality of their food. Whether the production processes of big growers were ethically unsavory, environmental concerns made them rethink the long distances most foods travel, or they simply hungered for a quality of food produced honestly and locally, folks once again yearned for family farms. We know that nothing tastes better than a fresh-picked heirloom tomato, in the way that nothing tastes quite as good as beef raised right down the road from you.
So after much thought and careful planning, we believe the time is right to begin anew. A wise Chinese philosopher once said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” We hope that you will follow along with our family as we undertake this adventure together.
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