Generations of Wisdom

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Wisdom

Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to those who have lived many years. 
Job 12:12

This week the farm is a little quiet and still as winter sets in and we prepare for lambs. However, in all the quietness we are able to reflect on the last year. January of last year we lost a great man! A man who helped keep the farming passion alive in all of us who followed him. A man who I had looked up to and always felt was a great teacher and shared his wisdom daily. 

Last year, I did the hardest thing he asked me to do in my life which was write his eulogy. How do you sit and write about someone who has inspired you to do what you love, someone who was teaching your kids the same passion, and someone who gave you so much of his wisdom that you worried you would forget it all? Being a generational farm, the next generation always looks to the older ones for their wisdom, but what happens when it is gone?  This past year was a year of so many changes and oftentimes we would wonder what wisdom he would have for us as we navigated the new farming challenges.  His voice, presence, and knowledge were missed and felt heavily on the farm.  


As I look to the future I know that his wisdom remains not only in what I do, but what I see my dad teaching my boys, and how the farm continues to remain alive for another year.  We will continue to forever hold his memory in our hearts and his wisdom in our brains as we move forward through the next generations, because this is what family farming is like in America.  We continue to grow the next generation for the same passion because without them, how many farms would remain?  Family farms realize how important it is to shape the next generation so that the legacy of the ones who have gone before us remain.  We may not be farming the same way as last year or the year before because he is not at our sides, but we are still farming and to us that is all that matters.  We know that he would have not wanted us to quit when the going got tough and adapt! 

So as we start another year without this man beside us we will continue to make him proud as we farm the land he loved, as we continue to live in the community he loved, and as we move forward growing for the next generations who will be following us because this is what farming is. 

Farming with Faith & Family!
God Bless
Amanda 














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