I have felt like my blog has been majorly lacking in farm talk. It has been hard to write posts when my days consist of my living room. As much as bedrest is making me stir crazy and I am ready to be released from this, we are getting ready to accomplish a huge dream. When my husband and I got married he could have started making a family immediately. For me our fur babies were more than enough for the time being.
This is where it all began with me! The memories with the family.
Fastforward a few years and here we are. If I go full term, we have 4 weeks until our little one will be joining us. Growing up on a farm was a blessing. But I did not realize it at the time. Now that I am an adult I appreciate the life so much. How many kids can say they got to grow up with their parents and grandparents working together and they got to see it and be around it? I watched my parents compassion for animals be demonstrated right in front of my eyes. I got to see a farm that was the result of blood, sweat and tears grow in front of my eyes.
One of the most important goals for the future of our farm is raising our kids here. When I think about the future of our farm the first thing I see are kids out in the barn playing with the calves or riding in the tractor. I see kids in white show pants at the fair with their first calf. To my husband and I, this is what farming is all about. It’s really about family. My kids will get an even better part of the deal, because my brother and his future wife are a part of the farm’s future too. Being a really close knit family this means more than I can put into words on here.
I can talk to you about the financial goals of the farm. I can tell you about whether we plan to grow. I can describe all of this to you in great detail but ultimately it means nothing without family. Growing up, we always joked the family that farms together stays together. I can see many farmers laughing because if your farm was like ours, you were simply too busy to fight. I’m not saying farm families never break up because they definitely do. We also do not always get along, there are days we are yelling at each other. But in the end, we wouldn’t have it any other way. The future of the farm is about people; not size, land, buildings or money.
