Howdy small farm and homestead enthusiasts! The seasons surely are changing and winter seems to be knocking at our door. As things are transitioning to a winter climate we have to take necessary measures to winterize our equipment and operations to be able to function as a portable and dynamic unit. We are currently enacting our cold weather plan to be able to make it successfully through the winter. Although there has been quite a bit going on around the farm and with our family, we have some really awesome educational and volunteer opportunities coming up in December and in the spring of 2020.

Greetings family farm enthusiasts, friends and patrons. It's been quite a while since I have written a newsletter. I have been diligently working on developing our systems here to be more sustainable and to function interdependently in a closed loop environment. Everything is going great with all that we have going on. Folks constantly ask how do we do everything and get it all done in a day. My response: the way to deal with heavy work loads is effective time management. The more and more I observe Nature and the natural cycles that work interdependently in our ecosystem, the more I am in awe. Nature works beautifully and it takes many many, many working parts to happen harmoniously. Walking outside early in the morning is like hearing a symphony with many beautiful sounds blessing my soul. The more I get in tune with Nature and learn more about these systems, I am able to effectively develop our farming systems to function in accordance with Nature.

Before having children, people always say, I will NEVER do x, I will ALWAYS do y. However, until you actually have children, you have no idea what will really happen. Brian & I (Angela) had lofty goals for what we expected parenting / child rearing to be like. We often viewed other parents and children and thought, our kids will never do that. Funny how karma has a way of catching up with you. We spend many days asking each other what can we do to be better parents, how can we show our children more love, how can we have more time for each other...etc. Every day is a work in progress and every day we learn something new. We can only hope and pray that with each decision we make, we are preparing our kids to be successful once they step out on their own.