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Hello again

We've decided to do better about writing emails and blog posts. So much is happening here and it's all too easy to just keep our heads down and keep working.

But that's no way to build a community. So the plan is to share farm and nature stories, more or less weekly, sometimes here on the blog and sometimes via email.

We try to be informative without being preachy, to share both the triumphs and the failures, and to do it all with a hefty dose of humor and appreciation for beauty.

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This Place is The One

It took forever to save for and then find the land that we wanted.

After countless hours browsing internet listings and driving around the back roads of Ohio, we found it.

When we drove up the driveway for the first time, we were both as sure as a couple of extremely cautious people can be that we'd found 'the one'.

It's 21 acres - about half of which are wooded. There's a pond big enough to float a boat in and a very old barn. The land slopes away on both sides and there's a view of …

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Why Farm?

Why do we want to farm?

We both have full time jobs and are watching 40 in the rear view mirror, after all.

So why start this now?

We're motivated! That's why!

We want to be part of offering healthy local food to our communities. It's truly ridiculous that our food takes such long and fossil-fuel-consuming journeys to get to us when we live in a place that is capable of growing so much.

But it's also about BELONGING.

Our world is so disconnected. So isolated. So out of touch with…

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