The Life of A Small Town FarmHer

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens...  Ecclesiastes 3:1  My family has always been church goers and strong believers in faith.  I find that in farming you have to have faith because without it you risk your mental and emotional health when things don't go "as planned." Anyways as a child, I fell in love with a particular hymn that we would sing at church called "The Hymn of Promise."  As a young child I never knew the meaning behind it but as I grew older, I started to realize that it was about life and death. It was a song that truly reflected all the things that we go through in life, the leaves budding and then dying, the flowers blooming and dying, butterflies in the spring and cold winters; the song reflected it all.  I even explain life like this to my kids.  There is a period of time that we have here on this earth and how we choose to live it is important and we need to value that because in the end you...

  A farm is more than land and crops. It's a family's heritage and future.  *Farmersknowhowtogrow.com* A few weeks ago, Logan was hovering over my shoulder as I was searching Amazon for a new book.  He happened to see a "recommended for you" book and told me to purchase it.  It was not a lot of money and he thought it would be a great idea to have me read it to them so they can learn too.  So I thought what the heck.  It was all about marketing your farm.  So we purchased it.  Well, we wanted to start putting the words on the page into action because what good is actually learning if you aren't going to make the changes. So with that we wanted to teach people about the farm.  We wanted to open up more and let people know that even though we are farmers, we care about them and their needs for their families.  We also wanted to educate people about where their food comes from and exactly what a farmer does.  Let's face it, anymore kid...

While the Earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.  Genesis 8:22  Do you every just wonder how God Creates the Sunsets?  Every time I capture a great one over the fields, barn, animals, landscape; I just wonder how awesome of a painter he really is.  The opportunity to see all these sunsets, and sunrises (sometimes: I am not a morning person) is truly a great experience, but it reminds me of one thing in farming, the close of a season.   We all picture sunsets as the end of our day and we know it's time to wind down, but sometimes for farmers that is not the end of the day.  That sunset sometimes means darkness is coming in way too fast and we still have so much to get done.  However, those sunsets remind me that we are now getting ready to close out the winter season and move into Spring or is it mud season?  I sometimes get spring and mud mixed up because with spring comes mud an...