Our family shares stories and living and working on a farm and we try to answer some of the questions we get about farm life.
Some of the questions we get asked include Are Farmers Really Rich or Poor, What Do Farmers Wear and Things Farmers Do in the Winter.
For our answers to these topics and much more take a look around and learn more about our life on the farm.
I was asked a good question yesterday, “How do some farmers seem to barely scrape by and some seem to be rich and have all kinds of fancy toys?” Of course this is a very complex question. I’ll work to share some of the variables in as simple of a way as possible. I think…
You know what makes me uncomfortable? Cities, parking garages, elevators and continuous impervious surfaces. I bet I’ve only hailed a cab a couple times in my life. If I had to do it tomorrow I know that I would be nervous. Was the world created for large sections to be covered in in concrete, steel…
I was invited to an adjacent school district in 2010 for the first time to be one of eight to ten speakers sharing a 40 minute presentation eight times throughout the day on food. Each speaker reaches most of the eighth graders. The school requires all eighth graders to read Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan,…
