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Jenelle's avatar

As we are growing this farm I yearn for the community of past. The group of ladies gathering to make sour kraut, the group of men helping to erect structures, the motley crew of children climbing, roaming and making mischief. I often feel quite alone and brainstorm ways to devise this community. Is it even possible anymore. People’s lives are too busy rushing from this to that that the modern world deems important. I don’t want to be self-sufficient I want to be community sufficient! You both are and will be a boon for any community that inherits your hard won skills and knowledge!

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Dani's avatar

Thank you for this! Your words have captured all the rumblings and worries of a heart that yearns for a similar self-sufficient lifestyle such as the one you and your husband have built. My husband and I are on a path to inherit our family farm that needs much TLC and repairs. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed before we have even reached that place in life and I wonder how we will support our family and our dreams with me wanting to be a stay at home mother. I wonder how we will support our family without sacrificing our values and the hopes we have for our land. I probably put too much on myself by thinking of all of these things that come in due time and through experience. It’s hard not to when your dreams run so richly through your veins! Thank you for your words of wisdom and the reminder that you and your family came to be where you are over time, not all at once.

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