The Life of A Small Town FarmHer

Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don't know if profit will come from one activity or another - or maybe both.  Ecclesiastes11:6  Have you ever had those moments where an idea just hits you and you aren't sure about it?  It's almost like those are times you just need to let it grow and give yourself time to really think about it, how it can work, and what you can do with it.   That's what happened here recently.  We had visited the PA Farm Show and while we were all just a little unsure of the crowd that day we did take away many different things.  We had seen a sign for goat snuggling and thought about checking it out.  We even headed for the line, till we realized it was extremely long.  It was a bummer we couldn't experience it but we knew that we had baby lambs at home that needed our attention and snuggles and well we figured we were in a much better place to get snuggles than others in that line.  ...

  For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.  Psalm 100:5   We know as humans that everything can not stay around forever, but sometimes you just want it to.  The picture is the last sunrise that our family saw come between the branches of that Maple Tree.  It might not have been "the Maple tree" the farm was named after but it was one of them.   Growing up the yard was full of trees, and there was just this one giant tree in the center.  That one was so big that unfortunately it only lived to be about 85 years old may be a few years older, but it was long gone years ago.  This tree was the last of the original maple trees.  The one that withstood 6 generations on the farm.  The one that we taught people about Maple Syrup on and of course the one people knew they were at the farm by.   However, time has once again stolen just another piece of the original farm and the...

  There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.  Ecclesiastes  3:1  As we got ready to ring in the New Year, a song kept coming to mind, The Hymn of Promise, and it is seriously my favorite hymn.  It is a song that makes me remember my grandpa and just the start of a new beginning.  If you haven't heard it, you can find it on YouTube or any other place to find hymns but it always has me thinking about how there is a season for everything.  Now as farmers we realize that the seasons are very important to what we do.  Those seasons are valuable to us, but one thing I realized the other day as I was looking back on all things 2022 for the farm, is this past year went way too fast!  Honestly, where did 2022 go?  I went back through all my blog posts and I didn't get to write anything beyond April! Yet so much happened, there could have been some great posts, even better ways to tell our farm story and ye...